Re: [Openrpg2 dev] First try at providing some help

[Mark T. <ma...@ly...>]

Bear in mind that it is an explicit goal for this project to have as few 
external dependencies as possible.   If you wish to use Maven for your 
own development in OpenRPG2, you can go right ahead... if, however, it 
requires other developers to download and install it in order to make 
use of your contributions, then that's where it won't do.  It is 
preferable that OpenRPG2 development continue to _not_ be dependent on 
any other facilities than a current JDK and ant.  Any development tool 
or project manager chosen by any particular developer should not 
introduce any more external requirements for anyone else than these, and 
ideally should work directly with them (although the latter 
functionality is not strictly required).

You know, I have to wonder why you need to rename src/ to 
src/main/java/openrpg2 anyways... there already *IS* a src/openrpg2 
directory representing the openrpg2 package that contains the client and 
server programs.   Even files that are not actually going to be put into 
the openrpg2 package can still have their own directories in src/ 
without any changes to existing build scripts.   Further, this project 
will always be entirely in Java, so the java/ directory is redundant. 
The directory main/ is also unnecessary, as we have the main files in 
src/openrpg2/,  and the non-main files in subdirectories off of that.
 >> Mark