[Rails-devel] Directory layout and webstart preparations

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

Brett and Erik:
in preparation of a rails2.0 alpha release (including webstart 
hopefully), I want to change the directory layout of rails2.0.

I already separated the test from the main code by introducing the two 
main folders src/ and junit/.

* The next step is to move to a structure which is similar to maven 
(even if we keep ant as our build tool I think the directory structure 
is not worse than any other and it makes it easier to move to maven if 
we want to do so)

The structure is the following:

http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-standard-directory-layout.html

* The other thing I want to fix is the standard Java directory layout in 
which the namespace is mirrored by directories: I propose to change 
rails/ into net/sf/rails.

Combined the changes will be:

A) Move code from src/rails to src/main/java/net/sf/rails
B) Move files from src/tiles and src/data to src/main/resources/...
C) Move jars in lib from src/lib to src/main/resources/...
D) Move code from junit/rails to src/test/java/net/sf/rails
E) Move code from src/test to src/test/java/net/sf/rails/test
F) Move files from src/test/data to src/test/resources/...
G) Keep readme and other files at top-level directory

I would also add a basic pom.xml at the top-level directory.

Any objections to that?

I know that it might not so easy to navigate around (at least on the 
command line), but it is close to the standards.

Stefan