[nebula-dev] Nebula project structure changes

[Christopher J Gross <chris.gross@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nebula developers,

We've had some recent conversations
about project structure.  I think we all agreed that having one project/plugin
per widget was appropriate.  There are a few other changes that we
need to make going forward.  I'm just going to list them here.  Please
let me know how you feel.

- Change our structure from a few main
plugins to one plugin per widget
   - some general plugins
will not change (examples and snippets most likely)
- Change our terminology from purely
widgets to components to reflect new additions such as JFace viewers and
presentations plugins.  This is mostly a change to the website but
also...
- Change our package names from org.eclipse.swt.nebula
to org.eclipse.nebula for the same reason.
   - org.eclipse.nebula.widgets
   - org.eclipse.nebula.viewers
   - org.eclipse.nebula.xxxxx
(presentations and other higher level components)
   - This means we are dropping
the use of "swt" and "nebface" in our package names.
  This is also a breaking change for existing users.
- Increasing the quality of our code
and documentation through more restrictive project/compiler settings.
- Package our downloads to include snippets,
javadoc (in Eclipse help plugin?), source (just export our plugins with
the source included?), more that I'm missing?
- others?

I'm hoping that we can finalize this
stuff pretty quick.  I have a couple of days devoted to Nebula stuff
and would like us to work out this new structure and start the actual transition
by creating new projects.  Then I am going to start redesigning the
website and more importantly getting an automated build up and running.

Regards,
-Chris