On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Janne Jalkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The package names have to change when a podling comes into the >> incubator (to the org.apache namespace). So, the "blow" has to happen >> anyway. I'm not suggesting we enforce this for existing podlings >> necessarily, but future ones should probably do it. Once the podling >> graduates, the plugins would need to change the package name they use >> because they are now based on an official ASF library. Is >> find/replace really that difficult? > > *Once* is doable. We can do a lot of refactoring of old code during that > anyway, clean away unused APIs, etc. > > *Twice* (that is, once from com.ecyrd.jspwiki to > org.apache.incubator.jspwiki; then from org.apache.incubator.jspwiki to > org.apache.jspwiki) is not so nice. > > Besides, us doing search-replace on other people's code and then > redistributing it is very probably not ok anyway. Our own code is trivial > to modify; all the external code is not.
IMHO the effort of renaming is not worth the gain - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
