16 May
2013
16 May
'13
6:02 p.m.
Hi Thomas
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Thomas Mortagne
<thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>wrote;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 !).
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