jakarta-commons-*.spec naming

Elan Ruusamäe glen at pld-linux.org
Fri Oct 3 22:06:32 CEST 2008


On Friday 03 October 2008 22:24:19 Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:04:52PM +0300, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> > i understand that we need to rename packages that have moved to
> > http://commons.apache.org
> >
> > how do we call them?
> >
> > - apache-commons-io (*)
> > - commons-io
> > - java-commons-io
> > - java-apache-commons-io
> >
> > (*) i prefer this one, unless it rises some additional confusion or
> > restruction due name use...
>
> I prefer the third ("java-commons-io") and I would be happy to see
> similar change for all java libraries. This way they would be grouped
> like python or perl modules. And there would be no confusion because
> of the http server in 'apache' package or because library names looking
> like application names.

sounds sane, 
but this ("java-" prefix) would apply only to libraries not applications?

i mean tomcat, jAlbum won't be named as java-apache-tomcat, java-jAlbum, 
java-gallery-remote.. ?

> Greets,
>         Jacek


-- 
glen


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