Proposal: Change the base package of projects

[soywiz]

From com.soywiz.... to just korge or whatever.

Proposed here:
#1185

@ygdrasil-io

[soywiz]

PROs:

• Less folders
• Cleaner

CONs:

• Retrocompatibility (since we are in 4.0.0 alphas we can still consider it)

[ygdrasil-io]

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."

Joke aside, auto generated type alias with the old package could, may be, do the trick to offer retrocompatibility.

[soywiz]

Do you know how to generate those type aliases automatically?

[ygdrasil-io]

I think KSP can do the job, i can try to test it this week end if you want
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/ksp-overview.html

[ygdrasil-io]

I created a proof of concept here :
https://github.com/ygdrasil-io/ksp-alias-generator
With a custom KSP processor :
https://github.com/ygdrasil-io/ksp-alias-generator/blob/master/processor/src/main/kotlin/alias/generator/AliasSymbolProcessor.kt

On the library, the processor receive two packages from the gradle configuration

ksp {
    arg("sourcePackage", "shiny.namespace")
    arg("targetPackage", "old.namespace")
}

KSP run the custom processor to generate the code when the library is build and we can call it from the final application

fun main() {

    println(old.namespace.decl2
            + old.namespace.sub.namespace.decl2
            + old.namespace.Decl2(3))

}

It seem to work on a trivial case, i will try on korge source code later.