[Gpe-list] SVN housekeeping

[Philippe De Swert]

Hello all,

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 13:38 +0100, Nils Faerber wrote:
> Sorry for the TOFU but it is a not yet mentioned idea but in the same
> direction...
> 
> What I would also like to see is a split in two "trees", a tree which
> contains all that we would consider really belonging to GPE and
> providing all and only just as much as to get a running GPE with a basic
> set of base applications.
> To this I would count the PIMs (and all that belongs to it), at max. one
> sample game, a text editor and probably not much more. This would form
> the "core GPE", thus maybe calling this tree "core" or such.

This is what I had in mind with base... However it should be decided
what actually is base (or core). 

> The idea is that people that want to test GPE or want to deploy GPE on a
> new device can find all they really need in a small and well structured
> tree.

Indeed, seems we are thinking in the same direction.

> In parallel to this we would have a second tree with "extra" which then
> can contain subdirs for "games", "multimedia", "PIM", "graphics", etc.

This might be a good idea to avoid clutteting extra.

> And of course as third top-dir or in the first-level dirs is/are "Attic"
> dirs for moving old stuff...

I proposed also defunct for stuff that might be interesting to fix. This
way we can point new developers to applications that might need some
care to become useful again.

Copying some stuff from Koen...

GPE
  |
  |-core (or base)
  |     |
  |     |-libs (libgpewidget, ...)
  |     |-PIM (contacts, calendar, gpesyncd, ...)
  |     |-network (mininet, ...)
  |     |-applets (minilite, clock, ...)
  |
  |-extra
  |     |-libs 
  |     |-games
  |     |-multimedia 
  |     |-network (gpe-gaim, ...)
  |     |-graphics (scap, gpe-screenshot, ...)
  | 
  |-legacy (Attic)
  |-defunct


Cheers,

Philippe