Re: debian-science repository structure
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Jordan Mantha <mantha@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:27 PM, David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> wrote:
>> -- debian science
>> +-- homepage
>> +-- packages
>> +-- b
>> +-- bar
>> +-- baz
>> +-- f
>> +-- foo
>> +-- policy
>> +-- tasks
>> +-- ...
>>
>> Each leaf of this tree would be a git repository. I guess we will
>> want a "tools" repo almost immediately.
>
> That's quite a lot of structure. How many packages are we reasonably talking
> about? So far I count 5 packages in the SVN repo. Do we really foresee
> having so many packages that we'd need more than packages/ ? Sorry if it's
> a newbie question, I'm just curious if we're wanting to get like 100+
> packages or only say 10-20.
Indeed. Is there any benefit in having this kind of hierarchical
structure even, since git repos are just directories on a filesystem?
I would suggest to keep the packages at the top level, and have
separate subdirs for tools, homepage, etc.
Best,
Teemu
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