[Users] GetComponents and git-repos

[Erik Schnetter]

On Jun 11, 2010, at 16:24 , Bruno Coutinho Mundim wrote:

> Erik Schnetter wrote:
>> On Jun 11, 2010, at 15:46 , Bruno Coutinho Mundim wrote:
>>> Hi Eric,
>>>
>>> I heard you are looking for a feedback on desirable features for
>>> GetComponents, so I have one feature to report that I actually don't
>>> like. I think the directory git-repos does break the logical
>>> organization of arrangements and thorns. It would be desirable to
>>> have all git-repos arrangements actually located in the arrangements
>>> directory. Another logical way of organizing the arrangements would
>>> be to discriminate all of them by the type of repository their   
>>> versions
>>> are controlled. Something as follows:
>>>
>>> arrangements-cvs
>>> arrangements-git
>>> arrangements-svn
>>> arrangements-hg
>>> etc...
>>>
>>> It may just be a matter of taste and I can live of that, but I  
>>> thought
>>> to bring this issue up and maybe more people agree on a neater way  
>>> of
>>> labeling the arrangement directories(y).
>> Eric
>> (Without answering to Bruno's suggestion)
>> I think we don't need the distinction between git-repos and hg- 
>> repos  etc.; instead, there could be a single directory "repos"  
>> that contains  all those repositories that don't fit into the  
>> arrangement structure.   You could also place a README file into  
>> this directory, explaining in  a few lines why this directory is  
>> there.
>
> This sounds as a good idea as well. However there should be some  
> sort of
> label or GetComponents directives to distinguish between these
> repositories. For example, while carpet and krank wouldn't fit in the
> usual arrangement/thorn organization, McLachlan would.


Indeed!  I didn't spot this.

-erik

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