[Gambas-devel] Gambas3 Directory Structure

[Benoît Minisini]

> if i remember well the packager take only not hidden file to make the
> executable archive... by this way all the other files (svn, and
> others) are not takked into account. (maybe Benoit can doing an
> exception for the src directorie.... i'll prefer too)
> 
> 2009/12/7 Ron <ron at ...572...>:
> > Charlie Reinl wrote:
> >> Am Montag, den 07.12.2009, 21:07 +1100 schrieb Kadaitcha Man:
> >>> 2009/12/7 Charlie Reinl <Karl.Reinl at ...16...>:
> >>>> Why should programmer want to see the files
> >>>
> >>> lol - if you can't see the files, why have a directory?
> >>
> >> that's a simple form of a repository on a disk. No?
> >> And keep all together, what belongs a typ ,(project, image, source-code)
> >> And for quick access to all that, you have the gambas IDE.
> >>
> >> Oh, did you know, that the IDE reads all whats needed when it starts
> >> (components) and source-code when open the project.
> >> All changes which comes "from outside" are not considered.
> >> (Not tested in gambas3)
> >
> > You can click the refresh icon, and new file(s) appear in the
> > treebrowser, for example if you copy them outside of the IDE, at least
> > thats how G2 works.
> >
> > To be honest, I found it a bit strange too that all project files are
> > hidden in G3.
> > Simply a dir called 'src' or 'project' with all files visible, is what I
> > had expected.
> >
> > Regard,
> > Ron_2nd.
> >

The project directory structure is something inherited from Gambas 1 and that 
evolved step by step.

I decided that the user should be able to put any data file with any structure 
in its project directory. 

So I decided to use hidden files and hidden directories for objects generated 
or internally used by the IDE, the compiler or the interpreter

Only the source files were not concerned in Gambas 2. But since Gambas 3, they 
are put in an hidden ".src" directory, as they now can be organized in 
directories.

But I don't see any problem at all with that: a file beginning with a dot is 
not hidden at all at the system level. It is only a convention followed by 
shells and file managers. 

It is a way to warn the user not to touch these files.

And if I copy a project directory with a file manager, all hidden files and 
directories inside are copied too - otherwise, change your file manager!

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini