On 1/22/14, 1:58 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote:
> Hi Gilles,
>
> Gilles wrote:
>
> [snip]
>  
>> It's a convention; the "component" part could be the component's name
>> i.e. Commons Math could give "commons-math" as a base name; then the
>> artefacts (archives and JAR files) would be differentiated solely on
>> the version number:
>>    commons-math-3.3.tar.gz
>>    commons-math-3.3.jar
>>
>> The current convention seems that the base name is derived from the
>> top-level package name (which could indeed be mildly confusing, hence
>> this thread):
>>    commons-math3-3.3.jar
>>
>> But since the top-level package is renamed with each major version, it
>> is redundant to have the major number present both in the name and in
>> the version number.
> Old discussion! Please stop and search the archives, it's a technical 
> requirement. Both names for package and artifactId must be changed.

Did we discuss before departing from the file name / meta-data /
package correspondence?  That is what is being advocated here -
changing *file* names to break with the standard convention.  Not
sure I agree with it (especially not for the jars); but it is not
the same as internal maven artifactIDs and package names.

Phil
>
> - Jörg
>
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