[jboss-dev] why strip version from jarnames?

[Stan Silvert]

Richard Opalka wrote:
> -1
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> Using versioned jars in AS is road to maintainance hell IMHO :(
> Note that there are some shell scripts in AS/bin
> and many !/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF/Class-Path entries
> in many jars referencing distribution jars.
> And these scripts and jars usually have different lifecycle
> (coming from different projects) than AS has.
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> Rio
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In general, I disagree.  NOT having the versioned jars makes things 
harder, especially for our users and support staff.

We should be able to use Maven's filtering feature to automatically 
build the scripts with correct jar references, right?

> On 02/01/2010 04:42 AM, Paul Gier wrote:
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>> When I switched the build to Maven I just kept the jars without versions because
>> that's how it was before.  There are still a few places that refer to the
>> specific jars names, but we can change this if we want.  As Adrian said, most of
>> the testsuite jar references are created automatically, so it would only be an
>> issue for the few that still refer directly to the name.
>>
>> Anil Saldhana wrote:
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>>> Think there was a discussion on this 2 years ago. Cannot remember the reasons for the opposition
>>> except that pre-maven builds/releases had no version names and we *maybe* decided to retain the process.
>>>
>>> One other reason may be that our build was not completely mavenized so all testsuite classpaths would
>>> have to be updated with the version numbers in the jars.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/29/2010 08:29 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
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>>>> Just wondering, why strip version tags from jar names in jboss AS
>>>> distribution?  Is this just practice or a requirement?
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