Hi Thomas On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>wrote:
> Reviving http://markmail.org/message/hlnqke3igkbec332 for as an official > vote. > > We have waited way too long and I think we really need to find a > solution even if none of the committers use Windows since a long time. > Every time a Windows dev even think of contributing he is very quickly > discouraged... > It would be interesting to have some evidence of that fact, because I do not known much Java devs around me that use Windows only. > As a reminder the issue is that working on XWiki source code is a pain > for MS Windows developers because of the (impossible to understand I > agree) limitation on path size. > It is not a pain, it is simply not usable. We should have probably state that more clearly so no one try that with a certainty of failure. > So the idea is to find a new logical rule to drastically shorten our > paths and Sergiu proposed the following: remove duplicated information > from our paths to maven modules. > > Here is an example: > > > xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-rendering/xwiki-platform-rendering-transformations/xwiki-platform-rendering-transformation-macro > (131 chars) > > would become > > core/rendering/transformations/macro (36 chars) > So WDYT ? > > Here is my +1 > > I also find it nicer when navigating using cd and tab in a unix shell > anyway. > I agree with the above, and I would have choose this scheme initially, but we have not :( I am now wondering what could be the negative consequences of this change. Do we lost some very useful history functionalities, like the selection history in IDEA for example ? Is there so much link to GitHub that it should be considered another bad consequence ? > > Planning to do it in 5.1 if everyone agree. > I reserve my vote until the consequences are more clearly stated. For sure, I do not want to loose history feature for adapting us to a silly limitation of Windows. Aside: To answer Sergiu concern about the benefit to postpone, it seem to me obvious that this is not a XWiki issue but a Windows issue. And there is a (little) chance that Windows will get finally fixed (but surely not before they have finish loosing their time reinstating the start button :) kidding !). > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO eGuilde sarl - CTO _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
