Re: Death To Sub-Sub-Sub-Directories!

From:

Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Wed, 04 May 2011 22:36:30 -0400

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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

Google???s tool for creating an Android project insists on creating a
subdirectory hierarchy corresponding to the package naming hierarchy. Thus,
if you name your class ???com.example.test_project.Main???, it will put
Main.java inside the subdirectory src/com/example/test_project/.

But it turns out no part of the build process depends on this: you can put
all source files at the top level of your ???src??? subdirectory, and the
project still builds just fine.

This is simply the normal behavior for file-system-based Java installations,
such as those on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac. No surprise, since Android
is built on a Linux core (well, GNU OS, I suppose I should say).

While it is not true that anything or anyone "insists" on using a reasonable
package structure, or to utterly eschew the default package, it's awfully
foolish to build anything other than toy examples in the default package.
That's why the very strong bias is to the best practice of non-default
packages for all types. You should follow that practice.

--
Lew
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