Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:17:58 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: organization Message-ID: <20050328191758.GB3141@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <4248557A.7000302@elischer.org> References: <319cceca0503281001792baf39@mail.gmail.com> <4248557A.7000302@elischer.org>
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 11:05:30AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > As things have changed, some of the original layout decisions have > become rather > outdated. For a slightly better example, check out the layout of the > DragonflyBSD kernel > sources. Matt took the oportunity to re-arange the FreeBSD sources when > he imported > them.. To some extent I agree with him (though not necessariy with his > positioning of every file). I completely agree here, but it is difficult to get everything into the perfect place. The NetBSD idea of moving i386 and the other platforms into arch/ is also very nice. > It is possible that we could do with a reoganisation but it isn't a > work-free job.. > Matt took some time to get everything working again.. The biggest problem is keeping history here. Doing something like that with CVS is a major PITA. We didn't have any old release, so moving the repository files didn't create a problem. That's impossible in FreeBSD land :) Joerg
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