I know what you mean. I'm not 100% sold on having the reverse DNS name
break into folders. I think that a flat directory structure would also be
useful, for reasons like you mentioned (browsing for artifacts). This is
how eclipse organizes their plugins, and we have adopted this same structure
on my company's maven repository. All of our "internal" artifacts are
hosted using something like ${REPO}/org.mozilla.rhino/jars/rhino-x.x.jar
I could live with either scenario.
Ryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 3:55 PM
To: 'Maven Users List'
Subject: RE: groupId naming convention
> On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 14:37, Sonnek, Ryan wrote:
> > Is there any reason for the current groupId naming
> convention? I find
> > it unnecessary that nearly all of the artifacts on ibiblio have
> > duplicate groupIds and artifactIds. Could the groupId be
> changed to
> > use the reverse DNS name (ie: org.apache.maven)?
>
> That's what the plan is, look in the Wiki. Ben's got
> something there on that specifically I believe.
Even though I think the DNS methodology is a good one it sure is nice to be
able to go to ibiblo.org/maven and see every type of artifact that is up
there from the repository root. Once Maven goes to the DNS way we will have
to navigate the package structure to find out if an artifact is present.
And sometimes you don't even know the artifact package structure so you may
not find the jar you are looking for.
For instance someome tells me to use the rhino jar, now it's located at
${REPO}/rhino, but in the future it will be located in
${REPO}/org/mozilla/rhino.
> > Eclipse has used this convention for
> > naming their plugins, and it really helps organize and
> differentiate
> > between files.
> >
> > Ryan
> >
> >
> >
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