There is some disagreement among the PPMC members as to whether we
should include version numbers in our JAR files that we release, so
I'd like to call for a consensus vote:

Please cast your vote:
   [+1] include version numbers
   [=0] don't care
   [-1] don't include version numbers

For some background, here are some links that discuss this issue:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119426/jar-file-naming-conventions
- advocates embedding the version number

http://javahowto.blogspot.com/2006/05/java-jar-file-naming-conventions-and.html
- advocates embedding the version number unless the JAR is distributed
in a larger deliverable

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/wasce/V2.1.0/en/adding-java-libraries.html
- advocates using a directory structure to partition JARs

** note that .NET does not embed version numbers in the file name.

Thanks!
-T

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