Re: organizing deep source trees with child packages

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:25:15 +0200, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
>
>> Le Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:18:27 +0200, Ludovic Brenta  
>> <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a écrit:
>>> Directories are *not* a solution for these problems.  They do not
>>> represent dependencies or hide any information from the compiler.
>> This is not a matter of semantic, this is a matter of being handy for  
>> human beings.
>
> Actually long file names is not the problem. The problem is that GPS in its
> tree view control used for browsing the project units ignores the packages
> hierarchy in favor of the hierarchy of the file system. Change that in GPS
> (or another Ada IDE) and the problem would largely disappear.

I still don't understand what "problem" is being solved here.

A file system browser allows viewing files by file name; that's a good
solution for a class of problems. A package browser allows browsing
packages by package name; that's a good solution for another class of
problems.

If the file and package names are the same, then you can use a file
browser as a package browser, avoiding the work of maintaining two
tools.

When do file names and package names _need_ to be different?

I don't see any problem with long file names; they used to be a problem
on 80 character terminals, but we are past that now.

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-- Stephe