Folks, In continuation to the refactoring initiative and following up on the discussion that we had on the last committers call, here we have the next round of broad based project structure refactoring proposal. This is themed around the idea of splitting the build system into separate smaller 'projects' with clearly demarcated responsibilities between them. In the way, these projects can have independent life-cycles on their own without coming in the way of each other (but still continue to have a dependency hierarchy).
Here are the set of projects to begin with: 1. framework (http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/tree/<branch>/framework): The regular Lift as we have today (minus lift-archetype, lift- examples, lift-misc). Thus we would have: framwork/pom.xml framwork/lift-base framwork/lift-persistence framwork/lift-modules 2. archetypes (http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/tree/<branch>/ archetypes): The lift-archetypes from Liftweb. archetypes/pom.xml archetypes/lift-archetype-blank archetypes/lift-archetype-basic archetypes/lift-archetype-jpa-blank-single archetypes/lift-archetype-jpa-blank archetypes/lift-archetype-jpa-basic 3. examples (http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/tree/<branch>/examples): The lift-archetypes from Liftweb. The big uptake for archetypes and examples is the reduction of build time for building full Lift. Individuals building Lift might not always be interested in building non ancillary packages like lift-archetypes and lift-examples. examples/pom.xml examples/<example1> examples/<example2> 4. resources (http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/tree/<branch>/resources: 4a. project-parent: A pure POM based project to be canonically used by all Lift family of projects (liftweb, lift-archetype, lift-examples etc.). Lot of what has gone in liftweb/pom.xml should get moved here. Obviously, this would contain the most generic configuration that holds true for all projects of Lift (#1, #2, #3). 4b. site-skin: Lift specific site skin instead of relying on org.scala- tools.skins:scala-skin-simple 5. references (http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/tree/<branch>/ references): Lift documentations and presentations. These don't need to show up in the project hierarchy in the IDE. 6. installer (http://github.com/dpp/liftweb/tree/<branch>/installer): The usual lift-installer that is tucked inside lift-misc. Again, these are unnecessarily showing up in the project hierarchy in the IDE. I am floating the idea beforehand and would be keen to have input from committers, the pros and cons and any other general feedback before proceeding. Thoughts would be very welcome :) Cheers, Indrajit -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
