Package directory structure naming convention

[George Moschovitis]

I am wondering what the Dart team (or other Darters) think about the following conventions for package directory structure:

A) Java(?) style (singular)

lib/src/name.dart

lib/src/name/

lib/src/name/name_a.dart

lib/src/name/name_b.dart

B) Ruby(?) style (plural)

lib/src/name.dart

lib/src/names/

lib/src/names/name_a.dart

lib/src/names/name_b.dart

or 

lib/src/names/

lib/src/names/name.dart

lib/src/names/name_a.dart

lib/src/names/name_b.dart

It would be great to have some kind of directory structure consistency in pub packages.

-g.

[Ladislav Thon]

I think that the current convention prefers singulars. That's why lib and not libs, test and not tests etc.

LT

[Andrei Mouravski]

I think that the current convention prefers singulars. That's why lib and not libs, test and not tests etc.

I don't know the original rationale, but singulars are definitely what pub uses. I think it might come from unix directory names (usr/ vs usrs/, mnt/ vs mnts/, etc.) 

[George Moschovitis]

Singulars sound fine to me. Please note, that I am referring to names used deeper in the directory hierarchy though, not the top level lib,test,etc. directories.

-g.

[Ladislav Thon]

> Singulars sound fine to me. Please note, that I am referring to names used deeper in the directory hierarchy though, not the top level lib,test,etc. directories.

Sure, but you probably want the deeper level consistent with the top level, no? :-)

LT

[George Moschovitis]

> Singulars sound fine to me. Please note, that I am referring to names used deeper in the directory hierarchy though, not the top level lib,test,etc. directories.

Sure, but you probably want the deeper level consistent with the top level, no? :-)

most certainly ;-)

-g. 

[Bob Nystrom]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Andrei Mouravski <amour...@google.com> wrote:

I don't know the original rationale, but singulars are definitely what pub uses. I think it might come from unix directory names (usr/ vs usrs/, mnt/ vs mnts/, etc.) 

A couple of motivations:

1. We started with "lib" which we felt was naturally singular following other languages.

2. Other Unix dirs are singular.

3. It's shorter.

Within lib, we don't currently have any strong conventions for directory names, but I generally lean towards singular.

Cheers!

- bob