Re: [Gnucap-devel] gnucap development snapshot 2013-04-23

[al davis]

On Thursday 25 April 2013, Felix Salfelder wrote:
> would you mind renaming lib to src? that would make porting
> much easier, as the history (well half of it) wont be hosed.
> some fixes we have talked about here are already commited to
> gnucap-uf and could be simply cherry-picked.

what do others think?

calling it "lib" is consistent with other programs.

half?  more like a quarter, but even so, the real history is in 
RCS, which doesn't carry over anyway.  It has gotten quite messy 
over the years.  Those are all factors in my thought of wait for 
the split, then start clean.

For the curious ...
http://www.gnucap.org/devel/gnucap-2010-04-09-RCS.tar.gz
This one has a restart at the time of transition from C to C++.

Having it NOT called src was an important part of my migration 
procedure ... for a while keeping new and old in parallel.

I do think the "apps" part is up for discussion.  As it stands, 
"apps" is all of the plugins that are loaded by default.   
Should it be split, perhaps "devices" "commands" etc.??  Should 
they be compiled one by one and a config file lists which to 
add?