Directory structure [was: Re: [PD-dev] popup external]

[B. Bogart]

Hey Frank,

I think there should certainly be a protocol for the organization of the 
externals CVS. At first it seemed to make sens e to have everything at 
one level deep, but this came from my putting externals in CVS early on 
(too early?) I think there were only about 10 or so externals when I 
commited the first version of chaos, and have just followed that pattern 
since. I'm not sure if organization by author makes the most sense or 
not. (chaos is co-written by me and Michale McGonagle for example) I can 
imagine co-authorship might happen more often. For example "popup" is at 
least 80% from GGEE's button, so I would (at least) consider Guenter a 
co-author. 

I'm really not sure the best organization, perhaps by types of externals?

control/
gui/
algo-generators/
?

I'm very happy of the prospect of august's autoconf system to be the 
standard, I have no attachment to any of the build-systems of my 
externals and would be happy to make everything autoconf, I just need an 
easy to follow template.

Ben

Frank Barknecht wrote:

>Hallo,
>B. Bogart hat gesagt: // B. Bogart wrote:
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>>I've put my first version of "popup" the popup menu widget in CVS.
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>Cool. I'll test as soon as I finished testing the new Snd. ;) 
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>But your check-in reminds me of another thing, I sometimes think about
>when looking at the CVS repository. You - and some others - put each
>external into its own directory. Another approach - that is taken by
>the larger collections like grill, ggee or creb rsp. pdp, is to put
>all externals by one author or those, that belong to a larger project,
>below a shared directory. I would prefer the second approach, partly
>because it makes organizing my own stuff easier. 
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>What do the others think? Should this be unified a bit? 
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>ciao
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