Draft JPMS Public Review specification

[Tim Ellison]

"jpms-spec-experts" <jpms-spec-experts-bounces at openjdk.java.net> wrote on 
14/03/2017 16:34:23:
> 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.

My examples are from teams in IBM who have tried adopting early builds, 
and
hit this as a problem.  While they can work around it by renaming their 
modules
to something they find unnatural, I find it hard to justify this 
constraint.

> >> 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.

Indeed.

Regards,
Tim

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