From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 20 20:36:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA07412 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 20:36:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.93.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA07407 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 20:36:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA25447; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 23:35:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 23:35:07 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Mike Smith cc: Archie Cobbs , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KLD naming In-Reply-To: <199901202336.PAA04090@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > I was just pointing out that having things in subdirectories > > is better than having a zillion files piled into a single directory. > > I'm torn between agreeing that it's tidier and disagreeing on the > grounds that it's much more of a pain to administer. "Where is that > damnned module?" "Why am I loading a stale version of saver_foo?", etc. Putting the source code in different directories is not equivilent to putting the modules in different directories, needless to say. :-) As such, I think having a structured source tree is really nice, but the simplicity of modules in a single directory in the style of MacOS extensions as you discuss has appeal (and means that users don't have to try and reproduce a directory hierarchy for binary-only modules they get somewhere). On the other hand, this still requires moderation in namespace use for modules. Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message