Maybe I should have said before why I'm inclined to go for B then C
in this order: My understanding is that by convention the geronimo
version is encoded in the plugin repository URI. So, when a user
browses the plugins within a repository, he already does know which
Geronimo version is targeted.
Thanks,
Gianny
On 02/03/2008, at 6:54 PM, Gianny Damour wrote:
Hi,
I believe the external app version is quite important from an end-
user perspective; so, I'm inclined to go for B then C. For
instance, users clearly see the external app version while browsing
plugin repositories. Furthermore, this allows the clear versioning
of two plugins for distinct external application versions.
Thanks,
Gianny
On 02/03/2008, at 12:18 PM, David Jencks wrote:
How are we going to name plugins for external apps, such as roller
or apache directory?
There are three versions involved:
1. geronimo version
2. external app version
3. plugin version
I figure if we're developing/releasing it the groupId is going to
be o.a.g.plugins
That leaves us with the artifactId and version to possibly encode
this info into.
Lets assume a version number of x.y.z.
Here are some possibilities:
A. Don't encode anything, just have the plugin version be (3).
So, roller-jetty-1.0 would happen to be for roller 4.0 and
geronimo 2.1, and you'd have to look inside to find that out. I'd
suggest in this case that changes in roller or geronimo versions
would bump the major version x or minor version y whereas
releasing an enhanced plugin for the same app and geronimo
versions would bump z.
B. Include the external app version in the artifactId and don't
encode the geronimo version. E.g., roller-4.0-jetty-1.0 would
happen to be for geronimo 2.1 but you could see that it's for
roller 4.0 from the artifactId. This is basically the solution we
used for specs. I assume changing geronimo version would bump the
major version x or minor version y whereas releasing an enhanced
plugin for the same app and geronimo versions would bump z.
C. Include both the external app version and geronimo version in
the artifactId, e.g. roller-4.0-g-2.1-jetty-1.0 would be the
first release of a roller plugin using roller 4.0 and geronimo 2.1.
D. Include the geronimo version but not the external app version,
e.g. roller-g-2.1-jetty-1.0.
I'm inclined to go for (A) but see arguments for everything except D.
Thoughts?
thanks
david jencks
