[GRASS-dev] GUI code dest dir

[Vaclav Petras]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> currently wxGUI code is placed by building system in `etc` directory.
>> I would say that more appropriate would be to put `gui` directory into
>> root, so at the same level as `bin` or `scripts`.
>>
>> Simirarly python libs are placed also in `etc` directory. They should
>> probably go to `lib\python` instead of `etc\python`.
>>
>> Any opinion?
>>
>> I'm for the reform. Please, consider also other related issues.
>
> The same layout for src and dist would be good for editing because then
> editors, python and other tools can just use the layout in src and it will
> work. This would mean that things which are now in `lib/python` should go
> to something which is named `grass` so that I can do
>
> import grass.script
>
> in the source code and it will work. Maybe separate directory for python
> libs in src root would enable this option?
>
> Note that for C/C++ code we have a similar issue. In the source code,
> includes are in `include` but in distribution they are in `include/grass`
> so you have to do
>
> #include grass/raster.h
>
> but if you are editing source code in some clever editor and you want to
> jump from the .c file to the header, you cannot since there is no `grass`
> directory in src. This applies also for code completion etc. Of course, you
> can set the editor so that it finds the files in dist but you don't want to
> jump to dist, but to source code.
>
>
Another reason for having src and dist code with the same layout in case of
Python is the documentation. The Doxygen is currently quite messy:

http://grass.osgeo.org/programming7/namespaces.html
contains grass, python, all GUI packages/namespaces individually and few
others

http://grass.osgeo.org/programming7/namespacegrass.html
contains script and temporal but they are different from those in python

http://grass.osgeo.org/programming7/namespacepython.html
contains what is in src/lib/python


Vaclav
>
>  Martin
>>
>> --
>> Martin Landa * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa
>> _______________________________________________
>> grass-dev mailing list
>> grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
>>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/attachments/20140427/87008649/attachment.html>