Why do we need the version part of the filename in $ACCUMULO_HOME/lib? It seems to me that it would be cleaner to unpack the tarball on top of an existing $ACCUMULO_HOME/ and overwrite the jars in lib/.
For the RPM/DEB, the versions of the files are tracked in the RPMDB (or equivalent DEB database), so they aren't needed there either. It would make our scripts slightly more manageable (files have a predictable name that doesn't need to be updated each version). I'm curious what the argument(s) against dropping the version from the jars in lib/ are. The way we copy jars currently to lib/ is with the maven-dependency-plugin, and that already has a built-in feature to drop the version part of the filename when it copies. It seems to make sense, and I see no argument against it. -- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii
