[csw-maintainers] Use of java folder

[Philip Brown]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 12:13:38PM +0100, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> > This is not good. by saying that, you make the uniform namespace,
> > non-uniform again.
> >
> > the whole point of a flat namespace, is that for any software package
> > [xyzsoft]
> > you would know EXACTLY where in the gar tree to go build it from.
> >....
> > [GARROOT]/x/xyzsoft"
> 
> It may be used for grouping similar items together, like for
> cpan/, where the directory name is exactly the module name in CPAN.
> I just said that it *may* be used with directories, but we are
> free to stick to a flat namespace by convention.

An "optional standard" is not really a "standard"; it becomes merely a
"suggestion". That's no good for future purposes of a fully automated tool
to build any arbitrary package.

ie: "csw-build xyzsoft" would automatically download source for xyzsoft
from gar, and build a package for it.