On 05/14/2011 05:22 PM, Florin Ciubotaru wrote: > Hi, > > This issue was addressed previously in > http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-6591, but other long path files have > been committed since then. I feel the problem is going to continue to appear > without a convention for directory naming. > > Paths are very redundant in some cases, leading to long strings which are > not compatible with windows systems.
This was originally voted in http://markmail.org/thread/xgb3lltoqfwphukk but the vote wasn't very strong. 3 voters actually preferred shorter names. I agree that this is a problem, and I'd propose to revert the original vote and use shorter names, without any redundancy. So: > Eg: > - > xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-extension/xwiki-platform-extension-repositories/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki-client/src/main/java/org/xwiki/extension/repository/xwiki/internal/ should become: xwiki-platform/core/extension/repositories/xwiki/client/src/main/java/org/xwiki/extension/repository/xwiki/internal/ > - > xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-extension/xwiki-platform-extension-repositories/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki-server-api/src/main/java/org/xwiki/extension/repository/xwiki/internal/ > - > xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-classloader/xwiki-platform-classloader-protocols/xwiki-platform-classloader-protocol-attachmentjar/src/test/java/org/xwiki/classloader/internal/protocol/attachmentjar/ > > We should probably have a convention limiting the git path(relative > directory + filename) to a max of ~230 chars, leaving the developer with > about 20 chars for his local root folder(which is still pretty low). > > Current list of files breaking "git clone": > > - > xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-classloader/xwiki-platform-classloader-protocols/xwiki-platform-classloader-protocol-attachmentjar/src/test/java/org/xwiki/classloader/internal/protocol/attachmentjar/AttachmentURLStreamHandlerTest.java > - > xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-extension/xwiki-platform-extension-repositories/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki-client/src/main/java/org/xwiki/extension/repository/xwiki/internal/XWikiExtension.java > - > xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-extension/xwiki-platform-extension-repositories/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki-client/src/main/java/org/xwiki/extension/repository/xwiki/internal/XWikiExtensionDependency.java > - > xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-extension/xwiki-platform-extension-repositories/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki-client/src/main/java/org/xwiki/extension/repository/xwiki/internal/XWikiExtensionRepository.java > - > xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-extension/xwiki-platform-extension-repositories/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki-client/src/main/java/org/xwiki/extension/repository/xwiki/internal/XWikiExtensionRepositoryFactory.java > - > xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-extension/xwiki-platform-extension-repositories/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki-server-api/src/main/java/org/xwiki/extension/repository/xwiki/internal/AbstractExtensionRESTResource.java > - > xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-extension/xwiki-platform-extension-repositories/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki-server-api/src/main/java/org/xwiki/extension/repository/xwiki/internal/ExtensionFileRESTResource.java > - > xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-extension/xwiki-platform-extension-repositories/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki-server-api/src/main/java/org/xwiki/extension/repository/xwiki/internal/ExtensionRESTResource.java > - > xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-extension/xwiki-platform-extension-repositories/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki/xwiki-platform-extension-repository-xwiki-server-api/src/main/java/org/xwiki/extension/repository/xwiki/internal/ExtensionSimpleSearchRESTResource.java -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
