Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 01:22:19 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, paradox <ddkprog@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: propose: all arch move into a separate dir Message-ID: <7d6fde3d1003060122r1e49b9d0kfb0e32e21fb1f675@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100304191311.GE3171@lonesome.com> References: <401095.35021.qm@web59107.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <20100304191311.GE3171@lonesome.com>
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
> There are two chief problems with a large-scale reorg of our src tree:
>
> =A0- There are many companies who use FreeBSD as part of their business.
> =A0 In the case of ISPs or companies who use FreeBSD as a base of their
> =A0 products, this would make it much harder for them to synchronize
> =A0 their local changes with the master repository as changes occur.
>
> =A0- We have a large number of existing Problem Reports containing patche=
s
> =A0 against our src tree. =A0These patches would be in the same situation=
.
>
> These are the reasons we've avoided doing so in the past, no matter how
> much 'cleaner' things might wind up being.
I'm going to come off ignorant as well because I don't have the
necessary history in the past attempts to reorganize this -- but would
it make sense to gradually work in the changes over an extended period
of time and encourage better directory structure in the short-term for
new code or would it be too much of a blooming mess to consider.
Probably the latter due to the inherent inconsistency with the rework,
but I figured I should ask.
Thanks!
-Garrett
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