DWT package mapping?

[Bruno Medeiros]

Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> Frank Benoit wrote:
>> At the moment there are these mappings
>>
>> org.eclipse.swt -> dwt
>> org.eclipse     -> dwtx
>>
>> Symbols:
>> SWT             -> DWT
>> SWTError        -> DWTError
>> SWTException    -> DWTException
>> ...
>>
>> But there are more candidates for the dwt project.
>>
>> com.novocode    -> ??
>> com.ibm.icu     -> ??
>> org.osgi        -> ??
>>
>> Where to put them?
>> And the rule for renaming should be consistent and open to new packages.
>> But why do renaming anyway? Is it really that hard to type? Can IDEs and
>> collective imports help?
>>
>> What also is bad about the renaming, is that it must be done all over
>> again. That is time consuming when preparing Java source.
>>
>> So I think... What about changing all the renaming back to the original?
>> Would that work? What do you think?
> 
> I find that when porting stuff, renaming is not a good option. Take for 
> instance Descent. It kept all the names of JDT unchanged, and that makes 
> it very easy to add new code, make plugins work almost out of the box, etc.
> 
> When I started Descent, I thought about renaming stuff like IJavaProject 
> to IDeeProject, or something similar, but I asked the PHPEclipse guys 
> what did they do, since they also used JDT's code base. They replied to 
> me saying that they renamed IJavaProject to IPhpProject, things like 
> that, big mistake, and that they were having a bad time getting updates 
> from newer JDT releases, and that I should not do the same as they did.
> 
> So my advice is to just keep the original names. Anyway, the S in SWT 
> means Standard, so SWT for D is not bad. :-P

Yup, if the port/change was to be made only once, it would probably not 
be a problem, but if one wants to integrate the future updates and 
patches, it gets complicated.

Still, I think it still might be reasonable to maintain changes for the 
*package* names. They barely change, and are referenced probably only in 
import statements at the top of a file, so that should not make the task 
of merging new SWT updates significantly harder.

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Developer, MSc. in CS/E graduate
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