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["Mathieu L." <lejatorn AT smgl.homelinux.net>]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:37:08AM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:42:11AM +0200, Mathieu L. wrote:
> > This seems to me the saner way of doing it evoqued so far, except that 
> > I'm still not convinced using the developper name as a scheme (even in
> > p4) is a good thing.
> > 
> 
> What would be a better way to organize the tree in the repository?
> 
> Since we've opened the door of it being arbitrary and hidden from users
> we can pick whatever works best for developers working in the repository.
> 
> The problem this scheme solves is 'who is maintaining what spells' as
> well as making it convenient for users to 'claim' spells by integrating
> them to their 'section'. Plus its easy for developers to visualize their
> spells and to use repository commands on them naturally.
> 
> Im not sure what other development centric layout problem there is to solve.
> 
> The disadvantages with this scheme are a huge 'unmaintained' section,
> you have to think a little harder about spell inheritence, you have to
> 'build' the grimoire to be able to use it, and the repository history
> may get interesting as people branch spells out of the unmaintained
> section into their sections and then back again. Advantages are the
> problems it solves above.
> 
> Of course, not everyone will ever like the layout we choose (if we
> choose to do anything at all), since we use a filesystem and not a
> relational database we're limited to one bare-metal layout at a time.

I see your point but I still think it will be a huge mess just to have
it working.
It also occured to me that maybe we should stop thinking in a p4 way of
implementing that and see how it would work with whatever (darcs?) soft
we plan to choose as a replacement for p4. Maybe there are neat ways of
doing that with another soft that we haven't thought about yet.

Cheers,
Mathieu.

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