git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become

From
TATor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
Date
Feb 4, 2011, 08:30 UTC
Message-ID
<AANLkTinQ13b9c1=SmMSC5ThjXcsSuMO2irwW04E+K=xY@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<87bp2sy2mf.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 03:06, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
Show 12 quoted lines
> Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com> writes:
>> Quite frankly, I'm surprised there are (presumably experienced)
>> developers who do not immediately see the value of a little
>> organization. Surely, given the use of code conventions, formatting
>> rules, etcetera, the obvious one step further is to also organize
>> where the files go?
>
> I think one of the problems is that what's been suggested seems like
> window-dressing.  Moving everything into src/ and calling it "organized"
> doesn't actually accomplish much other than perhaps making the README
> file more visible to newbs; things are _still_ a mess, just a mess with
> four more letters...

What Miles says is my feeling as well. And having a 'bin/' as was suggested in one post doesn't make much sense to me either - if you want your compiled output to go elsewhere than the source directory then the normal way of doing that is to do and out-of-tree build (so if that's not working - I have not checked - then that's something which would be worth looking into.)

-Tor
Previous: Miles BaderNext: Jakub Narebski
Message 10 of 15 in “Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become”
  1. George SpelvinFeb 2, 2011
  2. Erik Faye-LundFeb 2, 2011
  3. Pascal ObryFeb 2, 2011
  4. Nicolas PitreFeb 3, 2011
  5. Miles BaderFeb 3, 2011
  6. Andreas SchwabFeb 3, 2011
  7. Eugene SajineFeb 3, 2011
  8. Hilco WijbengaFeb 3, 2011
  9. Miles BaderFeb 4, 2011
  10. Tor ArntsenFeb 4, 2011
  11. Jakub NarebskiFeb 4, 2011
  12. Erik Faye-LundFeb 4, 2011
  13. [1.8.0] Re: reorganize the mess that the source tree has becomeNicolas Sebrecht, Feb 4, 2011
  14. Drew NorthupFeb 4, 2011
  15. [1.8.0] Re: reorganize the mess that the source tree has becomeNicolas Sebrecht, Feb 5, 2011

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.