jakarta-commons-*.spec naming

wrobell wrobell at pld-linux.org
Fri Oct 10 01:11:05 CEST 2008


On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:06:32PM +0300, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> 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.. ?

only libs like in case of python, i.e. python-psycopg2 (lib) but gaphor (an
app).

    wrobell <wrobell at pld-linux.org>


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