[CF-Devel] RE: [Crossfire-cvs] CVS commit: CFJavaEditor

[Yann Chachkoff]

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     o Why is the source code suddenly in
     
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     "/src/org/crossfire/editor/CFEditor"?
     
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       Did you try to hide it or something?
     
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       This new directory strucure might be handy in *your* editor, it
     
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       definitly is not in mine. Besides, to my knowing it is convention
     
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       that Package name and directory path are identical. Visual J++
     
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     enforces
     
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       this. The new Package name "org.crossfire.editor.CFEditor" therefore
     
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       doesn't work. It has to be "src.org.crossfire.editor.CFEditor".
     
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       However, I would greatly prefer the *.java files back in the
     
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       "/CFEditor" dir, where they belong.
     
     
Just as a short information notice: The package name and directory path are 
not identical. The package name and the directory path -relative to the base 
classpath- are.
So in this case, the editor code can be put in any subdirectory following the 
scheme:

CLASSPATH/org/crossfire/editor/CFEditor

I don't know Visual J++ very well, but there's certainly a way to extend your 
base classpath for each project. If you use an external JVM (like the one from 
Sun), you can also redefine the global CLASSPATH variable and add /src (or 
X:\src) to it.
Now quite a lot of other programs follow the package name convention 
org.<project>.<subpart> (like org.crossfire.editor.CFEditor); this may make 
the integration of the project into a complex package tree easier (For 
example, the Giant Java Tree at 
     
     http://www.gjt.org
     
     ).

Hope this may be of any use to youY. Chachkoff

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