On 21 Dec 2005, at 11:13, Leo Simons wrote:
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:59:11AM +0000, James Strachan wrote:
On 20 Dec 2005, at 19:33, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
It's not actually a dumb question, but rather one that I always
took for granted... I realized when asked by Alan that we never had
the need to codify it...
Yeah - I've never seen it actually written down anywhere & noticed
that the Roller project hadn't switched domains yet.
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/roller/trunk/src/org/
I wondered why this was mandatory; the purpose of the Java package
name scheme is purely to avoid clashes; provided the .org domain name
is owned (& we'd be happy to donate to Apache) I don't see why we
need to force a major package name change on our users. If it is
mandatory then hey we'll comply I'm just questioning who made this
decision and why?
Sun Microsystems in their coding standards :-). It was in retrospect
not such a good idea perhaps...
Suns coding standards wasn't my question - it was whether or not
"org.apache." should be a mandatory prefix on all Java package names
at Apache.
One thing we *can't* have is trademarks that aren't owned by the ASF
(registered or not),
I didn't think trademarks are linked to Java package names are they?
so *if* the package isn't changed then yes the
org.roller name and domain *should* probably come under full
control of
the ASF (I'll say that's a good idea anyway).
Agreed
I think the package name change is currently not mandatory, but
perhaps
it should be.
I'm not so sure. There's already various stuff at Apache that breaks
this rule (SAX, DOM, JCP APIs such as stuff in geronimo-spec, the SCA
specification in the Tuscany project; I'm sure there are other
examples, this was off the top of my head). Seems a bit silly to
introduce a new rule that we can't ever fully comply with for no
technical reason.
James
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