From: Tor Arntsen Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:30:10 GMT Subject: Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <87bp2sy2mf.fsf@catnip.gol.com> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 03:06, Miles Bader wrote: > Hilco Wijbenga 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