clojure-lang because there will be a clojure-contrib artifact for the same group.
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Stefan Hübner <sthueb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Laurent PETIT <laurent.pe...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Seems fine to me. >> >> One question, though: I see that you want to name the artifact >> "clojure-lang" and not just "clojure". >> Why not just "clojure" as is the case for the ant build script ? >> >> I guess this could just confuse people ? > > Very good point! That's exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping to > get. Pushing a library to Maven Central isn't easy to rewind, if it's > possible at all. So I want to make sure beforehand, that the right thing > is going to get there. > > So, here's my explanation, and I hope it is reasonable: > > I just used the artifactId which is defined in the pom.xml > shipped with Clojure since r502 (2007-10-30). Why "clojure-lang" was > chosen in favour of just "clojure" confused me too, so I can not give a > good explanation. Maybe Rich or the original contributor can? > > But, since Clojure has shipped this artifactId for 18 months now, it has > materialized in many people's repo like that, I guess. In fact, the > official 1.0 distribution "clojure-1.0.0.zip" has been shipped with this > pom.xml. It seems a matter of fact, that in the maven world Clojure > sails under the "clojure-lang" flag since day zero. > > So I refused to change that quasi-standard, as I don't want to confuse > other people, who got used to "clojure-lang" in their maven world. > > What shall we do then? > -Stefan > > > > > -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Creator of Apache Tapestry Director of Open Source Technology at Formos --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
