How to maintain non-core stuff?

[edscott wilson garcia]

El jue, 24-02-2005 a las 22:32 +0100, Benedikt Meurer escribió:
> 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?
> 
> As said, I don't think the separate xfce4 directory buy us anything. 
> Better to have everything as toplevel modules. E.g., lets say I'm a 
> translator, then I can just use gvim */po/de.po to update all 
> translations...

I'm with Benny on this. I'd prefer top level for all modules and only
leave libxfce4util,libxfcegui4, libxfce4mcs, gtk-xfce-engine-2,
xfce-mcs-manager and xfce-mcs-plugins in the core.

regards,

Edscott


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edscott wilson garcia <edscott at xfce.org>