catchup after long week...
George Harley wrote:
Hi,
Earlier on today I spent some time following the instructions for
developing Harmony Java code inside Eclipse [1]. After experimenting
with archive, luni and nio I decided to check out modules/security and
found that, in its current form, it can't be brought into an Eclipse
workspace and used like the other modules. One obvious difference is
that it doesn't have any Eclipse project metadata in there (e.g.
.project and .classpath files).
Easy to fix, although it's generally a convention in the OSS projects
I've worked in not to have that sort of IDE-specific junk in the
project, as we want people to be free to use whatever they want to use.
After adding these in (in my private
workspace), I began to look at other differences between security and
its peer modules in particular the difference in source layouts.
Recalling some ideas for layouts that have been kicked around this list,
I started to move things around a little to try and make things a little
more uniform with respect to those peer modules. Things were made more
interesting by virtue of the following security module distinctions :
* it has platform-specific Java code
* it contains native code for both Windows and Linux
Right, which is something I believe we want to do to the other modules,
move the native code inside each module.
[snip]
In addition to moving source around, I also made the necessary tweaks to
the Ant scripts contained in the security module plus the "top level"
Java build file trunk/make/build-java.xml so the Ant builds still work
as before.
That would be expected, yes :)
[snip]
I would be really keen to hear what people think of this prototype
re-structuring. It would be great if we could make the security module
as simple to work with inside Eclipse as the other modules are.
I'm all for making things work inside eclipse as long as the Eclipse
tail doesn't wag the dog, and make us do things that favor eclipse over
people who do command-line oriented build/test, or other IDEs and editors.
I'll comment on the structure in your next message - (that's got to be
the only advantage for going silent for a few days, being able to look
down the thread...)
geir
Best regards,
George
IBM UK
[1]
http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/subcomponents/classlibrary/dev_eclipse.html
[2] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-88
