From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:09:00 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo39o535gj.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1102030036420.12104@xanadu.home> (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:16:10 -0500 (EST)")
Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:
>> But just moving the whole existing pile into a subdirectory "because
>> everyone else does it" is not a reason; that's superstition.
>
> There is no superstition here, simply basic elegance.
"basic elegance" is hardly well-defined, and although there are probably
issues on which there's general agreement, this doesn't appear to be one
of them.
>> Having to type "src/" a lot more often is definitely a downside.
>
> Come on. This is a rather egocentric argument without much substance.
It certainly has more substance than hand-waving like "basic elegance"
though...
Some slightly more concrete arguments have been:
Pro-src: Big top-level dir scares newbs
Anti-src: Extra typing is annoying
I'm not really against a "src/" subdir, but it seems mostly a matter of
taste, and I've seen plenty of projects where the src/ directory seemed
pretty pointless...
-Miles
--
Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of
principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-03 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-02 2:29 [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become George Spelvin
2011-02-02 8:31 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-02-02 20:01 ` Pascal Obry
2011-02-03 6:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-03 8:09 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2011-02-03 18:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-03 18:46 ` Eugene Sajine
2011-02-03 21:42 ` Hilco Wijbenga
2011-02-04 2:06 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-04 8:30 ` Tor Arntsen
2011-02-04 10:49 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-02-04 11:17 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-02-04 18:15 ` [1.8.0] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-02-04 22:47 ` Drew Northup
2011-02-05 15:11 ` Nicolas Sebrecht
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-31 5:53 What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2011, #06; Sun, 30) Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 17:05 ` Planning for 1.7.5 and 1.8.0 Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 20:28 ` [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 20:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 21:08 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-01-31 21:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 21:19 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 21:00 ` Jeff King
2011-01-31 21:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 22:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 22:36 ` João P. Sampaio
2011-01-31 22:37 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 23:12 ` Jeff King
2011-02-01 0:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 1:48 ` Jeff King
2011-02-01 4:05 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 12:42 ` Thomas Rast
2011-02-01 11:14 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-01 11:22 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-01 13:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 16:02 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-01 21:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-01 0:35 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-02-01 1:53 ` Jeff King
2011-02-01 1:00 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-01 1:57 ` Jeff King
2011-02-01 7:24 ` Jay Soffian
2011-02-01 14:42 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-02-05 3:21 ` Martin von Zweigbergk
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