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

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Miles Bader [off-list ref] wrote:

Hilco Wijbenga [off-list ref] writes:

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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...

FWIW, I don't quite see what's wrong with "window dressing" here.
Making those files more visible is a good thing, IMO.

But I'm not so sure I agree that the rest of the source tree is such a
mess that everyone makes it out to be. OK, there's a lot of
source-files on the top-level (which would be the src-level with this
change), but why is that such a bad thing? And if this is a big deal,
perhaps moving libgit-sources to a separate folder would help?