Re: [jakarta.ee-spec.committee] Specification vs. API+implementation pro

[Bill Shannon <bill.shannon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

An Eclipse project may contain multiple repos.  I'm not so worried about the
split between repos as I am the split between projects.

Scott Stark wrote on 5/10/19 8:04 AM:
> I think I agree, but the formatting of the repos seems a little broken
> in the msg, so let me restate what I'm agreeing to:
> 
> 1. The preferred separation of specification project repos:
> 1.1 A distinct specification only repo
> 1.2 A distinct TCK repo
> 1.3 A distinct API repo
> 1.4 A distinct implementation or library repo where a library could be
> only a partial implementation or some optional helper classes
> 
> In the event that 1.3/1.4 are not readily doable, they may be combined.
> 
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 5:11 PM Bill Shannon <bill.shannon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> There's a few cases where the API is not separate from the implementation
>> and can't easily be separated.  What do we want to do for these cases?
>>
>> The prototypical split would be:
>>
>> Spec Project: spec document repo; TCK repo (eventually); API repo
>> Impl Project: impl repo
>>
>> The choices for these hard to split cases seem to be:
>>
>> Spec Project: spec document repo; TCK repo (eventually)
>> API+Impl Project: API+impl repo
>>
>> or
>>
>> Spec Project: spec document repo; TCK repo (eventually); API+impl repo
>>
>> Which is better?
>>
>> I prefer the latter, although we could choose on a case by case basis.
>>
>>
>> If I remember right, this is an issue for JavaMail, JAF, JSONP, and JSF.
>> I know that JavaMail and JAF will never be split.
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