Subject: devel directory reorg?

From: Lars Wirzenius <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 06:56:52 +0300

My memory is going, my archives have bit rot...

Did we reach any conclusion on reorganizing the devel directory?

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From: Guy Maor <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 17:27:53 -0500 (CDT)

> Did we reach any conclusion on reorganizing the devel directory?

No, the suggestions got a bit silly at the end though.

I'd prefer a non-hierarchical reorganization personally.  While none of
the ten thousand scripts that run on master should break, I'm sure they
all will.

(except for the ones I wrote of course) ;-b

Guy

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 11:40:34 +0200 (MET DST)

> the ten thousand scripts that run on master should break, I'm sure they

I prefer a non-hierarchical reorganization as well but I suggest that the
section directories are listed in one file per Distribution and that all
scripts read this file first before doing anything.  Adding the name of
that one new section will work for all scripts relying on the information
about what sections exist.  This is kind of similar how the Packages file
are right now (in a way).

Erick

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From: Guy Maor <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 10:53:25 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 23 Aug 1996 [email-masked] wrote:

> scripts read this file first before doing anything.

The scripts which do operations on the hierarchy discover all the .deb
files with find.  The filenames are then stored in the Packages file,
which other scripts read.

A few of my scripts have to make more constraining assumptions of the
hierarchy because they must deal with source files and new packages.
It's true that the new .dsc files provide a more formal mechansism for
associating source files with binary files, but nothing uses them yet

Really the key point is that using a section of
"devel/scripting_languages" should in principle work, but I don't have
time to fix my scripts if it doesn't.

Guy