Re: More on CVS layout

[Guido Draheim]

Peter Simons wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> My suggestion, if nothing better comes up, is to put the m4
> files  _flat_ into a single directory, for example:
>
>   m4src/ax_foo.m4
>         ax_other_foo.m4
>         ax_java_bar_foo.m4
>         ...
>
> This way, there is no chance we'll ever have to move a file
> to stay consistent. Furthermore, you can use the checked-out
> repository with aclocal(1) without any modifications or
> installation process. In the release archive, it is this way
> already.
>
> What other ideas are there? Anyone?
>

This is not compatible with additional personal aclocal archives
as well as third-party experimental aclocal archives. Think of
it as per-project m4/ subdirectory that sometimes get shared
with other projects - that's been the way I came to put up my
archive which was only a personal archive for my personal usage.
For the records, this seems to be one of the differences of
background in the inception of the ac-archive idea.

As a consequence, I would like to be able to manage multiple
subdirectories in a build system that can be switched on/off
or removed/added as needed. Therefore, I would rather see to
make subdirectories by source - in sfnet I was often using
the authors name as the directory name instead of the category
that the macro is intended for. By means of @category the macro
will show up in the presentation in the assigned global category.

cheers,
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