[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.

One last comment on this topic: since SVN is supposed to handle moves  
so well, why don't we defer the very contensious issues of  
reogranizing the directories and tags/branches until after we have  
the SVN repository working nicely?  It seems that it is too much to  
deal with all at once via email.

Also, that makes me think that there should be a (IRC?) meeting about  
the move to SVN first, then later about reorganizing.

.hc


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