[aur-general] Java name guideliness

Pablo Lezaeta Reyes prflr88 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 20:48:54 UTC 2014


2014-09-23 17:39 GMT-03:00 Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com>:

> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 05:22:52PM -0300, Pablo Lezaeta Reyes wrote:
> > 2014-09-23 13:13 GMT-03:00 Marcel Korpel <marcel.lists at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Det <nimetonmaili at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Enough of that already. Why I chose the "java-8-jdk" naming comes
> from
> > > the
> > > > fact that "java-8-openjdk" sounds like we're trying to do
> "java-<major
> > > > version>-<project name>". The project name of JDK is not "Oracle
> JDK",
> > > and
> > > > that's why I chose it. Now, OpenJDK apparently still calls these
> > > projects by
> > > > their "base name"[3], but _I_ would still prefer (read: I don't
> > > "refuse"; I
> > > > prefer) having packages called "jdk8-openjdk" and "jdk" that install
> in
> > > > "/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk/" and "/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-jdk/",
> > > respectively.
> > > >
> > > > This also means we can currently do:
> > > >
> > > > $ man java-openjdk8
> > > > $ man java-jdk8
> > > >
> > > > To access the man pages.
> > >
> > > For what it's worth, I support this naming scheme.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Marcel
> > >
> >
> > I preffer ad a hyphen after the version as all the other arch packages do
> > when is needed.
> > so my vote is for :
> > * java-openjdk-8
> > * java-jdk-8
> >
> > --
> > *Pablo Lezaeta*
>
> All the other arch packages? Really?
>
> $ pacman -Ssq | grep -Ec '[^-][0-9]+$'
> 322
>
> $ pacman -Ssq | grep -Ec -- '-[0-9]+$'
> 5
>

Ironically this show how bad I'm greep-ing,
Well if is for follow the main rule go for the
*java-openjdk8 and
*java-jdk8
I will be happywhit this one specifically

-- 
*Pablo Lezaeta*


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