Am 07/28/16 um 18:21 schrieb Christian Schulte: > Am 07/28/16 um 17:37 schrieb Andreas Sewe: >> Jason van Zyl wrote: >>> It’s all Maven specific, it’s always been Maven specific and that’s >>> unlikely to change after how many years? Even if it can employ >>> different strategies it’s still the Maven Artifact Resolution API. No >>> one is going to use this API to resolve from NuGet, NPMJS, PyPi or >>> anything else. Let’s just make it better for our specific use cases >>> instead of imagining this is going to be a general purpose tool. It >>> is clear that this never happened and probably never will. >> >> I think the confusion stems from the fact that there is both Maven (the >> tool) and the Maven repository format (the combination of directory >> structure, maven-metadata.xml, checksums files, etc.). >> >> The API we are talking about is for the Maven repository format and not >> some other repository format (like p2, NuGet, ...). It may be used by >> Maven *and* other tools (like Gradle, sbt, ...). In that sense, it is >> *not* specific to the Maven tool, but it is specific to the Maven >> repository format. Hence, calling it something with Maven in the name >> makes sense to me. > > +1 > >> FWIW, we (the Eclipse Code Recommenders project) have been using (first >> Sonatype, then Eclipse) Aether since ~2010 to download recommendation >> models stored in a repository which does follow the Maven repository >> format, but which does not store your typical artifacts (JARs with >> pom.xml). If that use case is still supported by the new API, I really >> don't care how the API is called. ;-) > > +1 > > It's an abstraction to access Maven(-format) repositories in a > consistent way. Project name could be "Maven Repositories" and the > artifacts could be > > maven-repositories-api > maven-repositories-impl > maven-repositories-utilities > etc. > > No need to add "API" to the project name. It's more than that. In the > end, it's just a name. We should avoid what was done in the past and try > to use a self-describing name. We had to tell people what "Aether" > stands for every now and then. This should be avoided. > > Regards, >
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