[csw-maintainers] Use of java folder

[Philip Brown]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:22:07AM +0100, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Am 01.02.2009 um 22:58 schrieb Philip Brown:
> > I thought "GAR v2" was supposed to have a flat namespace?
> 
> Well, it is more like the namespace structure is now independent of the
> category. The namespace is mostly flat, but you can have subdirs and put
> the packages in there also - GAR doesn't care. So if it is suitable you
> can use directories in any way that fits.

This is not good. by saying that, you make the uniform namespace,
non-uniform again.

the whole point of a flat namespace, is that for any software package
[xyzsoft]
you would know EXACTLY where in the gar tree to go build it from.

eg:

"go do a 'make' in 

 [GARROOT]/x/xyzsoft"