Re: organizing deep source trees with child packages

[Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>]

On 11-10-18 15:07 , Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:12:03 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:
>

  [ arguments why having many Ada files in the same directory,
    with the Gnat naming, is not a problem ]

I'm on Stephen's side of the debate.

Dmitry again:
> It seems that we are talking
> about different dimensions. My current project has 700+ units.

My current project has 800 units, with Gnat naming conventions, divided 
into not very many directories, according partly to the provenance (e.g. 
OpenToken is in a directory of its own), partly to the choice of 
application platform (e.g. interface implementations for Unix, vs. for 
Windows), partly according to the version of the application.

I often use grep on all files in a directory, and much less often 
find+grep when I need to look at several directories. I think I would 
very much dislike having subdirectories according to the package 
parent-child hierarchy. In this project, the number of children f�r a 
given parent is quite small, usually only one or two, seldom more than five.

The density of generic units and generic instances is also small, so 
perhaps this is more of a "dimensional difference" between this project 
and Dmitry's projects, than the raw number of units.

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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