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

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 03:06, Miles Bader [off-list ref] wrote:

Hilco Wijbenga [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Quite frankly, I'm surprised there are (presumably experienced)
developers who do not immediately see the value of a little
organization. Surely, given the use of code conventions, formatting
rules, etcetera, the obvious one step further is to also organize
where the files go?

I think one of the problems is that what's been suggested seems like
window-dressing.  Moving everything into src/ and calling it "organized"
doesn't actually accomplish much other than perhaps making the README
file more visible to newbs; things are _still_ a mess, just a mess with
four more letters...

What Miles says is my feeling as well. And having a 'bin/' as was suggested
in one post doesn't make much sense to me either - if you want your compiled
output to go elsewhere than the source directory then the normal way of doing
that is to do and out-of-tree build (so if that's not working - I have
not checked -
then that's something which would be worth looking into.)

-Tor