Re: CVS is your friend

Lukas Smith wrote:

Personally, though, I really don't care what developers want to do in their little corner of the 'pear/' CVS tree. While having a single standard would be nice, the package.xml mapping system can already handle most permutations.

Indeed the package.xml should be a good enough reference point. So to conclude I think it has been established that the current way is cumbersome for a valid development approach (sorry I don't understand the don't develop in CVS dir argument at all and I have a hard time taking this seriously since all people that through it out proclaimed it like a religious message without any reasoning what so ever) and some of the solutions suggested obviously don't work for certain developer needs. Also given the fact that I don't see where a few empty dirs can lead to confusion (especially since every package needs to have a package.xml anyways) I see no harm in making it an option.

The problem with the proposal (if you re-read the threads) is that both * having a new (read: unknown to most developers) directory structure AND * NOT having a valid package.xml for this is advocated.