Re: Proposal: Change directory layout

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

Christian Hopp <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
>
>>
>> The build directory looks a bit messy. Should we change it and move
>> all source files into a new src directory. A release directory will
>> then look something like this:
>>
>> hauk:[/tmp/monit-4.0]ls
>> CHANGES.txt   contrib/      doc/     Makefile.in  README      STATUS
>> configure*    CONTRIBUTORS  FAQ.txt  monitrc      README.SSL  UPGRADE.txt
>> configure.ac  COPYING       LICENSE  PLATFORMS    src/
>>
>> Where src/ contains source files and directories. What do you think?
>
> Lets do it after releasing 4.0... or?  

Yes, agree, it's best to wait with this stunt to after the important
4.0 release, in case this would annihilate the CVS repository.

> But anyways I am not only +1 for it and not +10 for it I am +100 for
> it! (-: I require a m4/ in the main tree!  Please put also ALL the
> docs in DOC.

Which files are you classifying as doc? I think that at least the
following should stay in the main dir; CHANGES.txt, CONTRIBUTORS,
COPYING, LICENSE, README, STATUS and (maybe the example) monitrc.

> Should also think whether to name Textfiles with ".txt" or not... I
> think without .txt would be okay.  But we do have a common layout!

I also think that without .txt is the best, but it's a bit more
complicated; files that can be downloaded from a web-server, e.g.
CHANGES.txt and FAQ.txt *must* have the .txt suffix so the http server
knows which mime-type it should use for the file. (well actually
FAQ.txt is not exposed to a web server other than via SSI)

-- 
Jan-Henrik Haukeland