On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Arioch <arioch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not XWiki developer and hardly ever would be. Even if i have my favorite
> mysfeatures.
> Also here are script-making and script-using guys. So i don't think this
> question would be complete off-topic.
>
> ===
>
> It seems that XWiki was never tested on Windows as none of developers had
> it.
> It seems that XWiki GitHub just cannot be cloned to Windows now.
>
> And i don't know if can be compiled there (hopefully JVM can overcome it,
> but who knows)
>
> But what i noticed again, is that hugely redundant file naming
>
> xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-classloader/xwiki-platfor
> m-classloader-protocols/xwiki-platform-classloader-protocol-attachmentjar/src/te
> st/java/org/xwiki/classloader/internal/protocol/attachmentjar/AttachmentURLStrea
> mHandlerTest.java
>
> Why that repeating time and gain, like if you use flat filesystem rather
> than tree ?

It's a naming convention we agreed on: the maven module folder name
should be the same as the maven module artifact ID.

Thanks,
Marius

>
> It looks like calling an object
> org.org-xwiki.org-xwiki-classloader.org-xwiki-classloader-internal.org-xwiki-classloader-internal-protocol.org-xwiki-classloader-internal-protocol-attachmentjar.org-xwiki-classloader-internal-protocol-attachmentjar-AttachmentURLStreamHandlerTest
>
> Nonsense ? Truly so.
> Yet on file system level Java developers usually do it, not only XWiki but
> many teams.
> Why ? Aren't directories given to suppress such redundancy ?
>
> Not only that give overly long unobservable paths, it also disables some
> programs on Windows.
>
> I heard that git has internal 4KB file path length limitations.
> I wonder what UNIX guys would say about sanity if one day they would try to
> download from Windows file with name about 16KB long...
>
>
>
>
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