CVS layout proposal

[Biju Chacko]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:56:23 +0200, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 19:41:53 +0530
> Biju Chacko <biju_chacko at vsnl.net> wrote:
> ...
> > 
> > One concern is that we seem to be tieing ourselves to '4'. What if
> > we decide to start version 5 based on the same codebase?
> > 
> 
> We make a new xfce5 toplevel directory and copy the code. xfce5 can't
> be based on the same codebase, since an increase in major number
> signifies a major architectural change ;-)

That depends on *what* constitutes a major architectural change!

[..]
> Well one problem is that we suck at categorising things (see current
> situation) ;-)
> 
> We probably shouldn't fix the categorisation in the CVS layout, but
> somewhere else (list of packages). Then we don't have to move things
> around when we change our mind.

Thats a valid point.

> > Humm, after typing that, I'm starting to think that 'xfce-foo' is a
> > little unwieldy -- perhaps 'xffoo' would be better.
> > 
> 
> well, we probably should never want to write an xfce-editor, but
> reserve the'xfce'-prefix for pure desktop stuff. It is rather nice to
> brand apps that are usually present for more environment. We can't all
> call our calendar app 'calendar' ;-)

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