From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 15:49:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05F316A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:49:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [168.103.84.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D6A243D4C for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:49:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2TFmHff001134; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:48:17 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:48:17 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20050329.084817.41630990.imp@bsdimp.com> To: maslanbsd@gmail.com From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <319cceca05032907411014a218@mail.gmail.com> References: <319cceca05032811484cb1a95b@mail.gmail.com> <42487982.30909@freebsdbrasil.com.br> <319cceca05032907411014a218@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: organization X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:49:43 -0000 From: mohamed aslan 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