#11 hard to rename a part

[Anonymous]

Currently, the source for each part is under a directory whose name is the part name:

stepmod/data/modules/<module name>

for modules, or:

stepmod/data/application_protocols/<AP name>

for APs.

Renaming a directory in CVS is tedious and error-prone. Furthermore, part names occur in many places throughout STEPMOD, both within the part source directory, and in global files. As a result, it is very difficult to rename a part.

Rather than trying to rename a part "in place", users generally find it more reliable to run mkmodule to create a new part and then copy and merge files over from the old directory. But even that is difficult and error-prone.

One possible solution would be to put each part under a directory whose name is a non-human-readable identifier generated by the system at the time the part is created:

stepmod/data/modules/<module id>
stepmod/data/application_protocols/<AP id>

or even:

stepmod/data/<part id>

The identifier should not be the part number, because even that can change. It could be a UUID.

Another possible solution would be to provide a tool to rename a part.

[Thomas R. Thurman]

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Another possible solution is to give each document (ballot/module/ap/resource) it's own project and to keep stepmod as the project for the non-data non-ballot items in stepmod.