[hibernate-dev] Slots of the OGM modules

[Sanne Grinovero]

I just noticed something which seems very wrong with the OGM modules,
although I guess I'm correcting a mistake of a younger self :)

The various modules of Hibernate OGM use the "main" slot, rather than
using the version of the project.
This makes it impossible for people to deploy different versions of
OGM, or worse it makes it possible for people to unintentionally
overwrite some parts of it with a different version.

In Hibernate Search we learned long ago - probably thanks to the
experience of the complex integration with both WildFly and Infinispan
and others - that it's much safer to provide modules using the slot
name "major.minor", i.e. we'd have "5.0" for the upcoming OGM release
5.0.0.Final.

Even better, we should publish the public modules (the ones the end
users are expected to mention in their configuration files / metadata)
with this scheme, but these to be aliases which resolve to the
specific version: that allows people to be decoupled from the micro
updates, yet be able to override this in case of need and still
require a specific micro.

Not least, we seem to have various properties which allow each module
to be released with a different slot id (i.e. couchdb and mongodb
modules could use a different scheme) and I currently can't think of
when this is useful, I'd suggest we get rid of that and make it all a
bit simpler.

Since I'm cleaning up other modules changes now I'd like to do this right now?

Thanks,
Sanne