Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 03:28:37PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

We do have subdirectories for documentation, tests, contributions, etc.  
But a sizeable part of the tree is just a big splat of source files 
dumped right in the root of the tree.

So I'd suggest doing the following:

1) Create a src/ directory and move *.c, *.h, *.sh, *.perl, *.py and 
   the builtin directory from the root directory to it.

Wouldn't this just be the same giant splat of source files, but in a
different tree? I don't really see the advantage, and it seems like an
extra annoyance. Besides being just one more directory to go up and
down, it does make history browsing more annoying. As much as I love
git's "don't record renames" philosophy, our handling of renames on the
viewing side is often annoying. I already get annoyed sometimes
following stuff across the s!builtin-!builtin/! change. This would be
like that but more so.

Or maybe it is a good thing for that reason, as we will eat our own
rename dogfood. :)

5) Rename t/ to testsuite/ so this doesn't look like some garbage 
   leftover.

Ugh, more typing. :P

-Peff