[Gambas-user] Restructuring the official Gambas examples

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 30/04/2013 20:47, Tobias Boege a écrit :
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Beno?t Minisini wrote:
>> Le 30/04/2013 15:39, Tobias Boege a ?crit :
>>> On Mon, 29 Apr 2013, Beno?t Minisini wrote:
>>>> I have never found the time to write good examples so you have my full
>>>> blessing.
>>>>
>>>> Just don't work directly on the current examples
>>>> (/trunk/examples/example). Just create a new directory
>>>> ('/trunk/examples/src' for... example) where you will store all the
>>>> example projects, with the structure you want. Once done, I will modify
>>>> the IDE to point at the new structure.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I merely thought of just adding a Niveau=X token to the .project file of
>>> examples.
>>
>> I don't like that, changing the .project file stucture just for a very
>> specific case. Why don't you just use the directory structure?
>>
>> /Examples/Beginner/xxx
>> /Examples/Advanced/xxx
>>
>> It's far easier to change the directory structure, and it will need far
>> less work for me.
>
> Then we must do some work to retain the grouping into "Basic", "Control",
> "Games", etc.. Managing a bunch of symlinks seems hard to maintain. IMHO,
> the grouping shouldn't go away with the relatively small addition of
> separating beginner and advanced examples.
>
> I understand your first argument, that this is only a special case, although
> a Niveau= line in any other .project wouldn't hurt the least. But let's
> leave it so, as a matter of principle.
>
> As for the second, I didn't know what would be necessary to integrate the
> new view into the IDE but you don't have to do it. I thought I would modify
> the IDE locally anyway before I commit the new example structure...
>
> Any better way (than the Niveau= line) to merge the two example structures
> (topic, niveau) into one directory structure? Or should anyone of both go
> away then? I mean, we don't even need a separation of beginner and advanced,
> in this case I'll just tidy up the examples.
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>

Bbe more concrete of what "levels" you want, and then we can use real 
names instead of numbers.

The current example grouping is arbitrary. You may have a different 
grouping for basic/beginner examples than for advanced examples or 
whatever else.

Just make a list of examples, and then we can decide how to group them.

-- 
Benoît Minisini