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RE: [platform-vcm-dev] Re: Move Delete Hooks problem
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Clemm, Geoff wrote:
> I looked at bud id=22458, and the thread seems to
> assume that renaming package "x" to be "xnew" should
> not also rename "x.y" to be "xnew.y" and "x.y.z" to
> be "xnew.y.z", but instead should just leave "x" in
> place and move the classes defined in "x" to the
> new package.
>
> I'm interested in what is the basis for this opinion?
I would think the Java Language Specification, saying e.g. "The hierarchical
naming structure for packages is intended to be convenient for organizing
related packages in a conventional manner, but has no significance in
itself..."
This means that although the packages "x.y" and "x.y.z" share some part
of their names ("x.y"), there is no direct relation between them (other
than convention). So the packages are independent of each other and as
such, renaming should work independetly on those packages.
Greetings,
Boris
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