Draft JPMS Public Review specification

[David M. Lloyd]

On 03/14/2017 11:05 AM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> 2017/3/12 15:54:41 -0700, tim_ellison at uk.ibm.com:
>> ...
>>
>> I agree that we should drop the proposal addressing #VersionsInModuleNames,
>> that module names must end with a Java letter.  Based on practical experience
>> there are a number of libraries that have attempted to use a number
>> legitimately (i.e. not as a version identifier) and been caught out by this.
>
> Examples, please, other than `commons-lang3` and `fabric8`?

You may recall I posted a number of other examples in the email thread 
about that subject.  But if your answer is always going to be "other 
than that, what else?" then I guess there's no more discussion possible 
there.

>> There are any number of bad practices that could be accomplished within the
>> current design, and attempting to spec them out of existence is quite futile.
>> This proposal introduces friction to adoption for a very limited gain.
>
> If only a couple of projects are affected by this constraint then perhaps the
> gain outweighs the friction.
>
> Otherwise, is there some other way to discourage developers from encoding
> version numbers in module names?

I think the point is that AFAICT nobody else agrees that encoding 
version numbers in module names is a bad practice on its own merits. 
Whatever it is you are trying to discourage can almost certainly be 
accomplished in other (substantially worse) ways.

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