[PD-dev] repository layout

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 13, 2007, at 5:07 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>> however, once we have moved to SVN i would like to make an  
>>> experimental branch of pd-extended to re-work the entire build- 
>>> system into small (managable) pieces that are modular and survive  
>>> directory re-structuring.
>>> i know that you are not really interested in that, but probably  
>>> others are :-)
>> I am all for improving things, but it seems that this would need  
>> to happen before reorganizing the repository.
>
> doing this in an svn repository will be so much more easy.
>
>> Otherwise we are without pd-extended builds until it happens.
>
> no not quite true.
> 1st of all, all the /externals would be compiled as usual. (nothing  
> changes here, just some things get added)
> however /abstractions would be left out of pd-extended at first.
> then you could just move the abstractions/Makefile as a temporary  
> hack to externals/Makefile.abstractions and call that from  
> externals/Makefile
> (the same with other stuff, which i am currently unaware that it is  
> in pd-extended: e.g. gripd(?))
>
> this should be doable in one afternoon.

>> That's not why I spent all my free time one summer building the Pd- 
>> extended and the auto-build farm.  Switching to SVN is not a good  
>> enough reason for major breakage.
>
>
> i see your point. that is why i always opposed to a monolithic non- 
> scalable build-system: it makes refactoring hard if not impossible.

Does that mean you are volunteering to do the work? :-D  About the  
technical issues, we are on the same page, more or less.  I am just  
really burnt out on build system issues.

.hc



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