3.0 RFC: Console Folder structure

[dereuromark]

1. bin/cake

First of all, the (remaining) non-class files should be removed from /src/Console.
Since $ src/Console/cake [command] or $ cd src && Console/cake [command] is quite long it would make sense to put those files into bin - as other projects do, as well.
So it is just $ bin/cake [command] then.

2. Console/Command => Shell

Secondly, the Console folder does not need to be that nested anymore.
We can move Command up, so it becomes a subfolder to app.
We should also rename it then, as we usually always have classes in a folder with the name of the type.
I recommend "Shell".

This simplifies the whole console part:

src/Shell
src/Shell/Task
bin/cake[.php/bat]

[markstory]

I would probably still leave Console/cake behind as a simple wrapper script. It is one less thing that people need to change when upgrading. Other than that I don't have huge objections to the other file renames.

[dereuromark]

I think they have to change it anyway to one of the above, regarding the different root folder names.
Changing it to bin/cake for cronjob scripts and alike should be a fairly easy thing to do.

[markstory]

We could also look at using composer to create vendor/bin/cake as well if we are looking at moving Console/cake around.

[dereuromark]

Or that. But Symfony2 for example has a root bin dir and

"config" : {
    "bin-dir" : "bin"
},

Which makes sense as it reduces typing (vendor/ folder in this case).

[markstory]

Would using both the composer config option in cakephp/app and having CakePHP export the bin script be a good first step? I have a small concern about switching directories around post beta, but if others are in favor I think it could work.

[ADmad]

👍 to the proposed directory and composer config changes.

[ravage84]

👍 to bin/cake[.php/bat]

[ionas]

now that we are moving to namings like "src" shudder "bin" really makes sense (consistency)

[markstory]

@ionas bin is much less to type as well 😄

[markstory]

Closing as the pull request is merged.

[ADmad]

Moving the cake executable to bin is still pending :)

[markstory]

My mistake.

[bcrowe]

I can take care of this unless someone else wants to. Feel free to assign to me if you wish.

[ADmad]

@bcrowe Steal it, steal it. @dereuromark doesn't seem to have come out of holiday mood yet 😄

[dereuromark]

True true
even though right now its more sunburn-mood^^
So @bcrowe go ahead!

[bcrowe]

Closing as cakephp/app#123 has been merged.