Re: [RFC] CVS directory structure

On 15 Nov 2003 at 16:08, Tobias Schlitt wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 15:02, Xavier Noguer wrote: > > > I'm -1 on this. CVS is a tool for source control. Doing development > > directly > > on your CVS dir is a bad idea. > > That's exactly the point. CVS is initially made for developing inside > it's checkout directories. That's just your local copy, which you will > commit to the central repository. So copiing files away from your > sandbox nd recopiing is double effort, without win. It's un-needed complexity in both work, time and a higher possible error-rate. > > Besides that, the new structure would not be the same as the > > installed one > > anyway. tests and data are in the first level in the installed pear > > dir structure while inside each package's dir in the CVS one. > > It's not suposed to be the same as the installed one. It's suposed to > make development easier. How could it? It's been mentioned that you e.g. need to add another include-path or something - so the aim is not to reflect the package dir-structure. But to be able to simply try out the current cvs- version of a package easily. Stefan