shorter package names

Adam Young ayoung at redhat.com
Tue Mar 30 13:52:40 UTC 2010


On 03/30/2010 09:28 AM, Justin Harris wrote:
> ----- "Bryan Kearney"<bkearney at redhat.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> On 03/29/2010 11:58 PM, Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote:
>>      
>>> The backlog ( https://fedorahosted.org/candlepin/wiki/BrainBox )
>>>        
>> has
>>      
>>> an item #35 like to have shorter package names which look cool i.e.
>>> org.candlepin.  This is quite an easy thing to do but should really
>>>        
>> be
>>      
>>> done before we make our first release. I'm ok with org.candlepin.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>        
> Yeah I think the Java convention is that it is your url backwards (never really understood that), so
> we should do org.candlepin if we are going to register candlepin.org.
>    

The rationale is that you own your domain name, so the package names 
will be globally unique.  So com.candlepin and org.candlepin could 
co-exist in the same process space.
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>> I have noticed in the maven works that folks are moving towards
>> package
>> names being common names. I would be fine with dropping the org if you
>>
>> like.. candlepin.XXX
>>
>> -- bk
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