"Adam R. B. Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 31/10/2003 09:10:44 AM:
> Folks wrote: > Are we discussing URI or URL? If URI, ok good .. but is this current? > > I thought it was more like (w/ pseudo-regexp notation): > > http://<host>/<group>/jars/<id>[-<version>][-<type>].ext 'jars' is the <type> of the thing. e.g. jars, tlds, wars, ears, exes, bins etc. > I'm not sure I like all of that (and yes, it is Java centric) but as I > understand it, it is how the repositories currently look. >From my angle they're not java centric, it's just that most of the content is java executable code. But, for example, ibiblio has a licenses directory where jars would be, and distributions, poms etc. > 1) I could cope w/o 'jars' if that made it less Java centric. AFAIC, it's the type of the artifact. > 2) I don't like the redundant /<version>/ -- it leads to the needs for > symlinks for latest (or similar). I prefer it in the filename. Once things > get copied out of a repository it is good to see what they are, fully > qualified. Ditto. [snip] -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/ Pub Key:http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/public-key.asc
