CVS layout proposal

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Tue, 15, Jul 2003, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

> * rename toplevel directories: 
>   xfce-stable -> xfce3, xfce-devel -> xfce4

ACK.

> * rename libxfcegui4 to libxfce4gui : non-trivial, because all modules
>   must be updated. Although it does not affect its working I find the
>   different naming compared to the other libs rather annoying. Perhaps
>   it's just me ;-) 

ACK.

> * Other renames:
>   xfce4 -> xfce4-panel
>   xfce-utils -> xfce4-utils
>   xfce-mcs-* -> xfce4-mcs-*
>   xfdesktop -> xfce4-desktop
>   xfprint ->xfce4-print

ACK.

> * xfce-utils. This module doesn't entirely work for me; it either
>   contains  too much or too little. A possible solution: 
>   rename to xfce4-common and move the taskbar to a separate module
>   (xfce4-taskbar?). Then it only contains things that are used by more
>   than  one other module (scripts, xfrun) or deal with the desktop
>   environment as  a whole (docs, xfce4-about).

ACK.

> * xfce4-toys: only contains xfce4-tips and xfce4-eyes plugin. Splitting
>   up  would be better, I think.

Maybe, but then we should perhaps move the xfce4-tips to core and the
eyes plugin to xfce-goodies.

> * We could make an xfce4-panel-plugins module with all plugins in
>   extras.  Don't know about that. We could also move them to the new
>   xfce4-goodies repository if that becomes availabe.

I vote for xfce-goodies (no note from berlios yet :)

> * I'd like to start using CVS branches properly after the 4.0
>   release. HEAD for devel, named branch for bugfix releases, e.g HEAD
>   for 4.1.x, xfce_4_0_branch for 4.0.x releases.

Thats what I suggested quite often now.

> 	Jasper

Benedikt

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