Am 01.04.2015 um 15:43 schrieb Richard Eckart de Castilho:
On 31.03.2015, at 21:29, Peter Klügl <pklu...@uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
My first investigations for a m2e project configurator haven't been really
successful. If someone has experience in this field... any help is welcome ;-)
You are talking about a connector that configures the ruta workbench based on
settings made in the POM or on a maven-plugin that does something during a
maven-based build?
A connector that configures maven projects, e.g., sets the ruta nature,
script source folders etc. This should be the correct way to do it, I think.
I was also thinking about a maven-plugin that does this brute-force, but
I assume that would only be a quick and dirty solution for configuring
eclipse-related resources like .project.
I do not yet have a good overview of the best practices...
I intent to support src/main/ruta by default, but also other source folders
since I can think of users that rather interpet ruta files as resources than as
program code. Thus, they want to place it somewhere under src/main/resources.
Complete support has maybe to wait for the release after next.
Well, ruta is a script-based language. So I would expect that ruta files are
copied verbatim from whatever folder they are in to target/classes anyway.
It is probably a good best practice to let ruta scripts live in packages (cf. Java
packages), so they should probably merge nicely into the classpath - as ruta files, which
would effectively be resources. Mind that you can even consider ".class" files
as resources.
The distinction into src/main/java and src/main/resources was imho made mainly
to separate (Java-)code from non-code. Ruta is definitely code, so
src/main/ruta makes a lot of sense to me.
For other languages, we have e.g. src/main/groovy (and there are probably
src/main/scala or src/main/flex, etc.). This makes it easier for
language-specific Maven plugins to locate the code they are supposed to operate
on.
In which case would you prefer to store stuff in src/main/resources?
I heart of people that want to put all resources that are loaded by
analysis engines in a specific sub-folder of src/main/resources, which
is then not copied to target/classes but to target/resources.
I think src/main/ruta should become the default, but all other locations
should also be supported.
Best,
Peter
Cheers,
-- Richard
