On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Mark Linimon <linimon_at_lonesome.com> wrote: > There are two chief problems with a large-scale reorg of our src tree: > > - There are many companies who use FreeBSD as part of their business. > In the case of ISPs or companies who use FreeBSD as a base of their > products, this would make it much harder for them to synchronize > their local changes with the master repository as changes occur. > > - We have a large number of existing Problem Reports containing patches > against our src tree. These 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! -GarrettReceived on Sat Mar 06 2010 - 08:22:23 UTC
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