Consider changing the directory structure to comply with Maven 2 standard
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Key: GEOT-887
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOT-887
Project: GeoTools
Type: Wish
Components: admin
Reporter: Martin Desruisseaux
Assigned to: Martin Desruisseaux
Priority: Minor
This is issue is opened for discussion purpose. It may be closed as "Will not
fix" if the inconvenients appear more important than the advantages.
Consider restructuring our directory layout in order to comply with Maven 2
standard layout as described in the following page:
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-standard-directory-layout.html
For the Geotools code base, this mean that the following changes would need to
be performed for each module:
* Java source code currently in 'src' directory would need to move to
'src/main/java' directory.
* Test source code currently in 'test' directory would need to move to
'src/test/java' directory.
* Resources currently bundled in the 'src' directory (together with Java
sources) would need to move to their own 'src/main/resources' directory.
Those changes would need to be done after all branches are merged to the trunk
(coverage, FM...) and before any new branch is created (2.3.x...).
Advantages of doing such restructuration are:
* Simplier 'pom.xml' file, since more default setting would apply.
* Developpers new to Geotools would feel more confortable with Geotools
directory structure if they were already familiar with other Maven 2 projects.
* More room for future developments, for example adding C/C++ code for a GDAL
or Proj.4 binding. The current Geotools directory layout left few room for
non-Java source code, since there is only a 'src' directory with no
sub-directory separating Java code from other languages.
Inconvenients of doing surch restructuration are:
* Deeper directory structure, which is a little bit annoying for browsing and
when working from the command line.
* Every developpers would need to remount the Geotools project in their IDE.
* Checking for differences between a branch with the old layout and the trunk
with the new layout on a project-wide basis would be more difficult. It should
not be more difficult if we only want to check for difference in a particular
module however, except for the resources factored out of the Java source
directory.
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