From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: organizing deep source trees with child packages
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:00:48 -0400
Date: 2011-10-20T07:00:48-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <824nz42ahr.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lx45tjrzjeey$.8q63htpkimof.dlg@40tude.net
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> The division is between command-line interfaces (cryptic commands + key
> accelerators for those) and visual interfaces (meant to be "intuitive").
What "division" are you talking about?
If you are talking about Emacs vs GPS, you are simply mistaken. Both
Emacs and GPS provide GUI interfaces to command line tools.
> Those who enjoy memorizing commands possibly have no problem to memorize 1K
> mappings Ada unit <-> file name.
The only people who need to memorize this mapping are those that do not
follow a convention that is a trivial rule.
The GNAT convention for computing a file name from an Ada unit name is
trivial rule; take the unit name, make it lowercase, replace '.' with
'-', add '.ads' or '.adb'. So I don't need to memorize anything beyond
the rule itself.
A convention that says "make up a short name for each unit, and then
tell the compiler about it" requires memory; that is the only way to
know what the file name for a given unit is. This does not scale to
large projects, nor to multiple developers on one project.
You have yet to say what convention you actually prefer. You keep
sidestepping the issue by saying IDEs should not present lists of files.
That is a separate issue.
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-- Stephe
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2011-10-12 23:38 organizing deep source trees with child packages Greg Moncreaff
2011-10-13 1:27 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-13 2:07 ` Greg Moncreaff
2011-10-13 3:52 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-13 3:55 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-13 4:21 ` Per Sandberg
2011-10-13 8:20 ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-13 13:19 ` Greg Moncreaff
2011-10-13 14:18 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-10-13 22:25 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-14 1:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-10-14 2:40 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-16 12:38 ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-14 7:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-14 7:42 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-16 12:51 ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-16 13:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-16 18:51 ` Shark8
2011-10-16 19:19 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-10-17 7:04 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-17 7:19 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-10-17 7:48 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-17 7:56 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-10-17 10:27 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-17 13:37 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-10-16 20:20 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-17 7:09 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-17 8:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-18 11:12 ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-18 13:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-18 16:55 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-18 18:25 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-10-18 18:57 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-18 22:00 ` Bill Findlay
2011-10-19 6:28 ` Simon Wright
2011-10-19 8:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-19 11:52 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-19 12:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-20 11:00 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2011-10-19 13:45 ` Bill Findlay
2011-10-19 1:52 ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-18 17:31 ` Niklas Holsti
2011-10-18 18:38 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-10-19 1:55 ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-19 10:41 ` Dirk Craeynest
2011-10-19 1:51 ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-19 9:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-19 9:52 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-10-19 12:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-19 16:43 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-10-19 20:01 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-19 20:03 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-10-20 10:50 ` Stephen Leake
2011-10-20 12:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-14 11:55 ` Stephen Leake
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