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/ > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- jvz. Jason van Zyl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tambora.zenplex.org In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
