On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:17:51AM +0100, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > The problem here is that jakarta-commons project names are intended to be > 'bland' (See the commons charter). Thus we have names such as lang, > collections, io. These are names that might equally apply to other > programming languages. > > My opinion is that putting code from different languages into the same CVS > is just going to hurt.
Yes I see this point. I also see the point that both projects will have to be aware of each other's name-space decisions at all times, which also sucks. Maybe it's more important to create a new Commons that is acceptable for full integration to/from the original Jakarta Commons, than to worry about namespace collisions. I tend to think that any namespace-collision-strategy that we come up with will be more confusing to our users, and I think the collaboration between the (successful) original group with the ASF-wide initiative would be very fruitful. What would it take to make these two groups into one? -aaron
