Phil Steitz wrote:

> 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.

Gilles is *obviously* talking about the jar files.

- Jörg


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