Re: Renaming modules

Petr Kuzel <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:42:47 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.tasklist.devel
Organization Sun Microsystems
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tim,

please postpone planned layout change. We do not know all
possible implications until reviewed by apireviewers. Keep
it on mind for next release.

   Cc.

Tor Norbye wrote:
> Tim Lebedkov wrote:
> 
>> Hi group,
>>
>> I plan the following changes on the trunk...
>>
>> 1. rename the module org.netbeans.tasklistapi to 
>> org.netbeans.modules.tasklist.api
>> 2. rename tasklist-docscan.jar to 
>> org-netbeans-modules-tasklist-docscan.jar
>> 3. rename the module org.netbeans.modules.tasklist.suggestions to 
>> org.netbeans.modules.tasklist.problems
>> 4. move the code from org.netbeans.modules.tasklist.suggestions.ui 
>> into the new directory tasklist/problems
>> 5. rename the module org.netbeans.modules.suggestions_framework to 
>> org.netbeans.modules.tasklist.suggestions
>> 6. rename suggestions-framework.jar to 
>> org-netbeans-modules-tasklist-suggestions.jar
> 
> 
> 
> I agree with the renames that result from projectizing the modules, but 
> can you explain your rationale for renaming the suggestions ui module to 
> "problems" and the suggestions framework to "suggestions" ?
> 
> I didn't do the split into two halves and haven't studied it, but I 
> assume what Peter did was to put the suggestions "manager" part (the 
> provider registration and notification) into a "framework" module and 
> all the ui (window, node creation etc.) into a suggestions ui module. In 
> that case, framework and ui seems like good names, whereas "suggestions" 
> and "problems" seem like two different concepts. In fact they're pretty 
> similar - suggestions are often provided fixes for problems. I don't 
> think it will be clear how these two modules differ and what the 
> relationships between them are.