#VersionsInModuleNames

[Brian Fox]

The standard within the scala ecosystem is to append the runtime version to
the artifactid, making every scala module out of compliance with the
proposal.

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Robert Scholte <rfscholte at apache.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 11:13:25 +0100, Stephen Colebourne <
> scolebourne at joda.org> wrote:
>
> I'm sure there are plenty of other examples on Maven Central. But it
>> doesn't really matter. Both of these are valid reasons to name a
>> project with a number at the end. As such, the #VersionsInModuleNames
>> proposal cannot stand.
>>
>
> Even though I fully agree that it doesn't matter, I have gathered a
> list[1] of groupIds+artifacIds which end on a number for some reason. The
> list is way too long (almost 30.000) to paste here.
> I haven't analyzed it yet, but you can see quite some libraries which are
> bridges to a specific version of another library or jdk, hence they need to
> include that version in the artifactId.
>
> Robert
>
> [1] https://gist.github.com/rfscholte/48095f061fbed5177355097421d420b7
>