On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 14:37, __matthewHawthorne wrote:
Has there been any thoughts about making the repository structure more
heirarchical?
I think Ben jotted some ideas in the wiki when we were chatting about it
but the basic gist would be to use FQDN where the top level would be:
org/
com/
net/
It certainly needs to be reorganized but so many are using it we're not
in a big rush to switch it without a good plan.
I've commented before about the abundance of commons-* directories in
the current repository... avalon and excalibur also have quite a few.
The way that I understand it, if a groupId is used, then all of the
distributions, jars, licenses, and poms for that group go in the same
directory. I'm not sure if this would ever cause any conflicts... if
so, perhaps each group member could still have its own directory for
these things.
As time goes on, it seems that the repository is going to get larger and
larger, and it will become more difficult to manage. Since maven still
has control over the the logic for downloading jars from the repo, I
don't think that a migration to a more heirarchical structure would be
catastropic... maybe the searching mechanism could just be updated.
Any thoughts? Which choice do people prefer?
1. (possible structure)
repo/
jakarta-commons/
commons-beanutils/
commons-lang/
commons-(many more)
jakarta-avalon/
avalon-activation/
avalon-apps/
avalon-(many more)
jakarta-excalibur/
excalibur-altrmi/
excalibur-cli/
excalibur-(many more)
2. (current structure)
repo/
commons-beanutils/
commons-lang/
commons-(many more)
avalon-activation/
avalon-apps/
avalon-(many more)
excalibur-altrmi/
excalibur-cli/
excalibur-(many more)
3. (another possible structure)
repo/
apache.org/
ant/
jakarta/
avalon/
commons/
excalibur/
maven/
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