Re: [Arianne-devel] CVS directory structure

[Andreas T. <mt...@gm...>]

Hi,

> I was just checking the directory structure we have on CVS and noted 
> that the data directories are a bit unsorted, right now we have about 4 
> data directories and those are data, maps, sprites and tilesets.
> 
> Now all these folders are data folders for stendhal but they contain 
> different type of data. Wold'nt it be better structured if we put maps 
> sprites and tilesets in the data folder we have there, and also create a 
> skin folder in the data directory for those panel[input description 
> here].xxx files, since those are actually skins for the menubars. Moving 
> these folders would also bring some clarety to whats data in the project 
> and whats not.
> 
> Maybe we shud consider moving those items and creature xml files to the 
> data directory aswell, since those are data files too. And if we move 
> them to the data directory it gets easier to find for new people, when 
> they don't need to search through that giant src directory.

Deal.
Note that we have 2 different dir-structure flavors in the project. One 
is in CVS, the other is in the jar file. Cleaning CVS automatically
leads to a cleanup in the jar file structure.

So this would look like:

/data/tilesets/ - Tileset graphics
/data/sprites/  - item/monster sprites
/data/gui/      - gui graphics (former /data/*)
/data/gui/laf   - (optional) panel textures (look and feel)
/data/maps/     - *.xstend (still available in java-classpath)
/data/conf      - log4j.properties, default stendhal.ini, *.xml

Priority: post 0.40 release.


> Also one more thing, right now the "real src directory" in my opinion is
> stendhal\src\games\stendhal\
> 
> Now this directory repeats itself cause it has stendhal in it 2 times 
> and in my opinion those aditionally games\stendhal\ subfolders is 
> unnecesary, the directory already say it's the stendhal game we are 
> working on, so woldnt it be better if we moved all content in: 
> stendhal\src\games\stendhal\ to the stendhal\src\ directory?

No. Here is the reason:

1. [stendhal] 2.[\src] 3.[\games\stendhal\]

1. [stendhal] - The (CVS) project name. It is not really a directory.
2. [\src]     - All sources are in this dir.
3. [\games\stendhal\] - The java package. Need this to keep the java 
code clean and structured.

This kind of directory structure is not uncommon in os proejcts.

Regards
Matthias