Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:15:23 +0300 From: Iasen Kostov <tbyte@OTEL.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: organization Message-ID: <42497F1B.4040804@OTEL.net> In-Reply-To: <20050329.084817.41630990.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <319cceca05032811484cb1a95b@mail.gmail.com> <42487982.30909@freebsdbrasil.com.br> <319cceca05032907411014a218@mail.gmail.com> <20050329.084817.41630990.imp@bsdimp.com>
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Warner Losh wrote: >From: mohamed aslan <maslanbsd@gmail.com> >Subject: Re: organization >Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:41:25 -0800 > > > >>guys this is not a flame war >>but the linux way in arranging the source file is really better than >>freebsd way, it's a fact. >>however it's easy to rearrange it in 1 min as someone said before. >>but i mean this step should be done from the core team. >>for example all fs has to go in a subdir called fs >>arch specific file should go in subdir called arch/(arch name) >>and so on . >> >> > >The problem is getting consensus on what is to be done. Sure, one can >arbitrarily say this goes here or that goes there, but everyone's >notion of reorg is a little different. It would take a lot of time >and energy to get this consensus, which is better spent making things >work better... > >Warner >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > And the worts of all is that You are both right to some extent. The new developers want the source tree arranged in the way mohamed says it should be. Not some device drivers live in pci/ other in dev/ and things like that. And on the other hand experienced kernel hackers who want things to stay as they are so it is easy for them to navigate in know waters. IMHO mohamed is a bit "more" right.
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