Re: Package names (was: When are you going to move packages to org.apache.pivot?)

[Martijn Dashorst <ma...@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Greg Brown<gk...@mac.com> wrote:
> Note that preferring "pivot.*" to "org.apache.*" isn't meant as an affront
> to Apache per se. We came up with the Pivot package structure long before we
> became an Apache project. Many things in Pivot are an attempt to do
> something in a way that we think is better than it has been done before.
> This is simply another example of that philosophy.

This holds true for *all* projects joining Apache coming from an
existing code base.

I posit that moving Wicket from wicket.* to org.apache.wicket.* caused
a lot more headaches to the Wicket community than it ever will to the
pivot community. We had thousands of projects having to migrate to the
new package structure.

Martijn