[aur-general] Java name guideliness

Dave Reisner d at falconindy.com
Tue Sep 23 20:39:09 UTC 2014


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


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