Re: [HACKERS] Proposed change to the JDBC driver

As I haven't seen any replies to this, can I assume no body objects to me
making this fairly major change to the driver?

I need to know sometime in the next few hours, as I'm about to fit the
pieces together.

Peter

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Peter Mount wrote:
> I'm sending this to both the hackers and interfaces lists as this
> affects the 7.0 release and an interface.
>
> Ok, up until now the driver has operated under a base package of
> postgresql. This has worked fine so far but technically breaks Sun's
> rules on package naming. The rule is that any organisations package
> names begins with their domain name. This prevents two different package
> names from clashing.
>
> Ie: My own classes always begin with uk.org.retep as my own domain is
> retep.org.uk. The classes I write here begin with uk.gov.maidstone.
>
> Now, what I'm thinking is that as the 7.0 driver isn't going to be
> compatible with earlier backends (mainly due to the core changes like
> date/time handling, but there are others), I'm proposing to change our
> base package name from postgresql to org.postgresql so that we comply
> with this rule (which has been around since Java first came out).
>
> All this involves in the source is to create an empty directory called
> org, and move the original postgresql directory into it. Then each .java
> file will need org. prefixed to the package name.
>
> The down side, is that any existing source that uses the driver will
> need amending so that either the Class.forName() line reads:
>
> Class.forName("org.postgresql");
>
> or if it's supplied as a parameter (which is my prefered way) the org.
> added.
>
> Now because of this downside, I want to see what everyone thinks about
> making this change before I do it, as I have a lot of things to do to
> the source to implement it, but it would be better to do it now,
> especially as it's the first new major release since JDBC was included.
>
> Peter
>
> --
> Peter Mount
> Enterprise Support
> Maidstone Borough Council
> Any views stated are my own, and not those of Maidstone Borough Council.
>
>
>
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>

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