[aur-general] Java name guideliness

Pablo Lezaeta Reyes prflr88 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 20:22:52 UTC 2014


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*


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