git repo layout

Brian J. Tarricone brian at tarricone.org
Wed Jul 22 22:52:56 CEST 2009


On 07/22/2009 01:31 PM, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> I used this repo layout as the base for the new archive layout and
> these two seemed a little odd.
>
>> xfce/gtk-xfce-engine-2
>
> Given that all tarballs are named gtk-xfce-engine-2.x.y.tar.bz2,
> shouldn't this be gtk-xfce-engine? I remember we've been refering to it
> as gtk-xfce-engine-2 in the past but is this correct? This is from
> configure.in:
>
>    AC_INIT([gtk-xfce-engine], [2.6.0], [http://bugzilla.xfce.org])

Yeah, that's fine.  I think the '-2' is in the path name for the 
ever-murky "historical reason," but we can drop that.

>> xfce/libexo
>
> Can we make this xfce/exo? I know it's a library but the tarballs are
> all called exo-something, not libexo-something.

The tarballs don't have the 'lib' prefix?  Gross.  I'd say fix that.

	-b



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