On Sunday 07 January 2007 14:59, Christopher Williams wrote:
> David,
>   Well I'm not sure specifically what you'd like to know, so here's a
> little primer...
>
> SourceFolderRoot and SourceFolder map one-to-one to JDT's
> PackageFragmentRoot and PackageFragment (though our name gives a better
> idea of what they are). SourceFolderRoot is exactly that: the folder in the
> project whose contents hold ruby scripts. By default this is the project's
> folder, and this element is tied very closely to loadpaths. It's where RDT
> should begin traversing the filesystem looking for scripts. Every child
> folder is a SourceFolder element. Our restrictions on namespacing in Ruby
> are much different from java's so there shouldn't be any enforcement about
> type names and their position in the folder hierarchy.
> An external library could be represented as a SourceFolderRoot linked to an
> external folder structure (outside the actual project), and this should be
> how we'd implement linking back to Ruby core/std libraries.(The JDT has
> JarPackageFragmentRoots, we'd just have ExternalSourceFolderRoots).
>

Well, the real question then, is can I change it so that the root of the 
project is NOT the a SourceFolder, but another folder is?  That's something 
RDT has 'needed' for a long time...

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