On 06/08/2014 15:08, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
Just wanted to express my surprise that java files are still to be
located in "src/.../classes". For me, most open source projects and
most users of Maven and other build systems, "classes" is the name of
the *output* directory containing ".class" files. Having the ".java"
files in there is very confusing.
As such, could I request that consideration is given to using
"src/.../java" as per the Maven inspired standard directory layout.
If that is not deemed acceptable (because of the root package name of
java for example) I'd be happy with other sensible options
("src/.../javasrc"?), but please, not "classes"!
A historical note, going way back then the java sources were in a "java"
directory (as in java/java/lang/Object.java). It changed to using
"classes" in JDK 1.2. I don't know the full history/rational but perhaps
"java/java" was confusing then. Using "classes" might seem strange to
someone approaching the code base for the first time but I haven't
observed anyone being confused by it (at least in the 7 years to date of
OpenJDK). So the name might not matter too much but no harm considering
whether it's worth trying to find a better name.
Just to mention that anyone expecting to see "classes" in the
intermediate build output directory is going to be disappointed as that
is proposed to go away. I doubt that many will notice this.
-Alan.
