New source tree layout

[aquette]

FIXME: Need completion from Arno

[clepple]

^ Unfortunately, none of the preceding commits refer to this particular issue.

If we are thinking about reorganizing, can we do something about the absurdly long Java path names?

The file "jNut/src/main/java/org/networkupstools/jnut/NutException.java" breaks the build if we use a name much longer than "nut-2.x.x" for the tar file in "make distcheck". I realize part of the name is dictated by the reverse-DNS convention, but we could cut out a few of the extra directory levels.

[EmilienKia]

In fact, this is the conjunction of:

• a typical maven-based project hierarchy (src/main/java - sources/ )
• a typical java based source hierarchy (org/networkupstools/jnut)
  We can not really truncate that without loose benefit of maven-based projects.
  I agree that is completely silly for beginners to see so many directory levels for few files but it follow a really structured group of rules specified by maven. Maven suggest a structured approach which can be considered as too strict but at usage is really well thunk and clean.

Do we really need a hierarchy simplification for this part ? or is it just a cosmetic problem ?

[clepple]

On Feb 25, 2013, at 4:22 AM, Emilien Kia wrote:

Do we really need a hierarchy simplification for this part ? or is it just a cosmetic problem ?

I think that breaking the build is more than a cosmetic problem :-)

Admittedly, we have a workaround in that I changed the tarball name back to nut-x.y.z.tar.gz, but the added information (number of commits past the last tag, plus the Git hash of the actual commit) will be useful if we re-enable generating tarball snapshots. Otherwise, it looks like the development snapshot is still an official 2.6.5 release.

[clepple]

Since zip/jar files presumably don't have the tar 99 character limitation, and because there is very little other code in nut-*.tar.gz that a Java programmer would use, I wonder if it makes sense to split out the Java packages into their own repository.

[EmilienKia]

Splitting makes sense. Especially as actually java package does not need any native source file to compile.
Fine for me.

[aquette]

@balooloo : can you please create a new github repository for jNut, under the networkupstools project.
Tracked as issue #22

[clepple]

jNUT has been split off.

See also #102.