[PD-dev] repository layout

[Thomas Grill]

Am 11.09.2007 um 17:04 schrieb IOhannes m zmoelnig:

> Thomas Grill wrote:
>> Hi,
>> sounds very reasonable to me.
>> The only potential problem that i see is the flat hierarchy  
>> (resp.  naming scheme) of the branches and tags. It seems that  
>> this folder  would populate quite fast and might quickly become a  
>> mess. On the
>
> true.
> a better idea would probably be that each package gets its folder  
> where releases can be put into, e.g.:
> /tags/zexy/zexy-2.1/
>
> the reason for the flat hierarchy was, that deep hirarchies often  
> tend to confuse more than not, at least if several unorganized  
> people are involved (like we are): while more scrolling is involved  
> in the flat hierarchy (seemingly more of a mess), inhierarchical  
> structures it might eventually turn out that we have /tags/foo-1.0  
> but /tags/externals/bar/bar-2.0, which makes bar-2.0 much harder to  
> find in relation to foo-1.0

Clearly the hierarchy should be as shallow as possible, on the other  
hand i always like the idea of sandboxes where each of the  
unorganized people can mess around on a micro-scale, while it stays  
macroscopically organized.
Tags and branches like /tags/project/project-0.0 seem to be a good  
compromise.


>
>> Btw., where would the svn repository be located?
>
> i think there are currently no real objections against staying at  
> sourceforge (at least, i had planned to put it there; just for the  
> sake of all the developers already having an account there (and  
> knowing their passwords))
>

True, sounds good.

greetings, Thomas