[GRASS-dev] wxGUI: new packages layout

[Michael Barton]

I think this is a good idea. The only thing is that the proposed directory structure seems a bit over-complicated. To actually make a change, fix a bug, or add a new feature, it is necessary to alter code in several different modules because of the complex links across different python modules. From the point of view of navigating this to access different modules, perhaps the number of subdirectories could be reduced somewhat to make this easier.

Michael
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On Nov 11, 2011, at 3:21 AM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 19:19:21 +0100
> From: S?ren Gebbert <soerengebbert at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] wxGUI: new packages layout
> To: Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>
> Cc: GRASS developers list <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
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> Hi Martin,
> this is a great idea!
> 
> +1 from me
> 
> 
> Best regards
> Soeren
> 
> 2011/11/9 Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> currently all wxGUI modules are located within one package called
>> `gui_modules`. This was more or less sufficient in the early stage of
>> wxGUI development. As wxGUI code base was growing new modules has been
>> added. Some wxGUI components (eg. vdigit) are based on more modules
>> (vdigit.py, mapdip_vdigit.py, etc.).
>> 
>> As wxGUI code base is still growing and the new components are being
>> introduced (psmap, and now real i.class replacement) this structure is
>> becoming highly unsuitable and almost possible to manage.
>> 
>> At this stage I would like to propose more structured layout based on
>> several packages (core, gui_core, forms, lmgr or mapdisp) and non-core
>> sub-packages in `modules` package.
>> 
>> See
>> 
>> ?? ?? ?? http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/wxGUIDevelopment#ChangingGUImodulesdirectorylayout
>> 
>> Please feel free to comment this proposal, better sooner than later. I
>> would like to start moving to the new package layout during next week
>> (in trunk). Later after some testing to introduce changes to `devbr6`
>> otherwise backporting bug-fixes will become almost impossible
>> (nightmare for wxGUI developers).
>> 
>> Thanks for any comments! Martin
>