16 May
2013
16 May
'13
4:25 p.m.
I'm rather -0 ATM and very close to -1 because:
1) I haven't heard from a windows dev for a long time, I don't think that happens
that often
2) It's a *huge* change and it should definitely not be done lightly. We would need to
plan a period like 2 full days, all devs would need to stop working on what they do and
help out. For example all pages on xwiki.org having some github links are going to be
broken and will need to be updated (that's probably around hunded of pages overall)
3) Windows devs have a simple solution which is to use cygwin so it's not a blocker
Thanks
-Vincent
On May 16, 2013, at 4:14 PM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com> 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...
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.
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.
Planning to do it in 5.1 if everyone agree.
--
Thomas Mortagne
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