Re: [fractal] Re: [architecture] Fractal packaging & deployment, bis

[Humberto Cervantes <Humberto.Cervantes@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 17:53, Thierry COUPAYE wrote:
> Le 7 mai 04, à 13:56, Sébastien Jean a écrit :
> 
> >
> >
> >> Eric Bruneton wrote:
> >>
> >>> it is true that "packages", in this document, have nothing to do with
> >>> Java packages. But "deployment unit" is a bit too long (I would
> >>> prefer a single word). Any other idea?
> >>>
> >
> > i propose either "seed" or "germ" that shortly stands for deployement 
> > unit
> 
> "seed" or "germ" should be reserved for bootstrapping issues wrt a 
> deployment infrastructure IMHO. Maybe we can find something better than 
>   'package' but frankly, package is just fine for me. We would just have 
> to say 'java package' when speaking about java package (!) and package 
> otherwise. Sun takes words like 'interface' or 'package' and gives them 
> very strange semantics, i don't see why this should prevent us for 
> using these words which have a natural meaning to most people.
> 
> T.
> 
> 

Why don't you use the term "bundle"? I don't think it's patented by OSGi
and the definition I found for it is pretty appropriate:

"an assemblage of things that have been tied, bound, or packaged
together."

Humberto
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