[PD-dev] Standard Directory Layout for Pd Srcs

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 4, 2004, at 5:38 AM, guenter geiger wrote:

>
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> On Sep 3, 2004, at 5:01 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>
>>> Hallo,
>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>>> So I make a quick web page to document what seems to me the standard
>>>> layout of files and directories for working with the Pd sources.
>>>>
>>>> http://puredata.org/docs/developer/devlayout
>>>>
>>>> Comments?
>>>
>>> I don't like version numbers in direcory names at all, I think this 
>>> is
>>> a wrong thing to do (at least on the conceptual level). Versions are
>>> what tagging and branching in CVS should cope with, IMO. The rest is
>>> fine with me.
>>>
>>> (I suppose, the old "build" directories should move to packages/build
>>> or similar.)
>>
>> The pd directories with version numbers are the ones from Miller.  
>> They
>> untar.gz that way, so it makes sense to leave them named that way and
>> use a symlink.  The pd directories checked out from CVS don't need
>> version numbers, that I agree with.  I changed the doc to represent
>> that.
>
> If you want to establish a standard, isn't that counter productive 
> having
> all these different  pd sources lying around ? It would be bad if
> developers would start to depend on them. I think this should not be
> specified at all, only the existance of the pd directory.
>
> You could add a note that the pd directory might be a symlink to a
> directory containing the pd sources, but where this directory has to be
> should not be specified, because it doesn't matter in this case.

Good point, I changed the doc to represent that:

http://puredata.org/docs/developer/devlayout

.hc

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