How to maintain non-core stuff?

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
>> Auke Kok wrote:
>>
>>>> I'd prefer all separate packages to be toplevel modules.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> same... it would make no sense to impose a virtual hierarchy in the 
>>> SVN tree, except maybe 'xfce4' for the xfce4 core components. apart 
>>> from that everything should go right under the top.
>>
>>
>>
>> Can we agree on the repository layout suggested by the SVN book 
>> (trunk, branches, tags) then? With everything as toplevel modules? 
>> (somehow I doubt that it will be useful to have a separate xfce4 
>> subdir in the long run, besides that it makes tagging/branching of 
>> full releases somewhat tricky)
> 
> 
> Ok, so I think we're all pretty much agreed that we want to move to 
> svn.  Now, let's actually do it.  Though it's probably best to wait 
> until after FOSDEM.  I'm fine with using the trunk/branches/tags 
> layout.  As for the overall repo layout, I think the consensus is to 
> just do everything at the toplevel, except for the xfce core 
> components.  So we have:
> 
> |-xfce4/
> | +-xfwm4/
> | +-xfce4-panel/
> | `- ... (other core components) ...
> +-xfmedia/
> +-mousepad/
> +-(other xfce-related apps)
> +-xfce4-systemload-plugin/
> +-xfce4-weather-plugin/
> `-(other panel plugins)
> 
> Does that sound like what we want to do?  Do we want to create a 
> subdirectory for the plugins as well as the core?
> 

Yes and yes, I think ;-) Plugins are a big enough category to have their 
own toplevel directory.

Moreover, using svn means we can more easily move things around, right? 
In that case it is not that important anymore if we get it right the 
first time ;)

>    -b
> 
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