Re: [Gnash-dev] File renaming

[Rob Savoye]

Benjamin Wolsey wrote:

> It seems fine to use the package system to organize the simple Objects,
> but why also move DisplayObjects there, when it separates the central
> and related API classes like MovieClip and TextField from each other? I
> mentioned that I personally would like these classes to stay in the
> libcore directory where they are easy to find, and would like at least
> some discussion before they are moved.

  Well, all we've been doing is moving things to the directories where
they exist in the AS3. Why "easier to find" ? We can leave some classes
in libcore or libasobjs, but I thought they'd be easier to find if the
class definitions lived in the same subdirectory tree as the test cases
and the spec. If you have classes you'd like to see not migrated, let us
know.

> Secondly, classes such as XML_as are being moved to XMLDocument_as,
> Key_as to Keyboard_as. Should an AS3 naming scheme be preferred over
> AS2? Most importantly there is *no documentation* in the new classes to
> explain what AS2 classes they implement.

  That was the idea, to use the new AS3 names, but to have them work
under the old AS2 names. Documentation is coming, we've had a problem
with accessing the wiki. The documentation will include what versions
each class was in, and differences between AS2 and AS3.
http://wiki.gnashdev.org/AS_Migration

        - rob -