Re: Splitting packages
On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 17:10, Rendhalver [Peter Brown] wrote:
>>>>> "Ville" == Ville Skytt <Ville>
writes:
Ville> On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 16:52, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>> I'm thinking about the naming of this kind of packages, and suggest
>> foo-support as the template. Like this:
Ville> After a 2nd look, maybe foo-modes would be better, for consistency with
Ville> existing packages...
sounds good to me dude
i think i need to make that individual package release script i was
talking about, i think i will be needed if there are even more packages
:)
are you think about doing the same to edit-utils as well ??
if so i suggest breaking them up into sections like this
web|net-modes
unix-modes
etc etc
I think the ultimate goal would be to have stuff packaged so that one
package provides support for one thing. But maybe the pui is not ready
for fine-grained packaging. Categories would help, instead of the
currently provided flat list, even better if the categories would be
hierarchical. To illustrate:
Programming
|- C
| |- cc-mode
| |- c-support
| `- ...
|- Perl
| `- ...
|- Java
| |- jdee
| `- ...
WWW
|- MarkUp
| |- psgml
| | `- psgml-dtds
| `- hm--html-menus
|- css-mode
|- ...
Mail
|- gnus
|- vm
...
So, web-modes or unix-modes sound a bit too generic to me, but they
could be category names. For now, I suggest that when splitting
packages, the resulting ones should be ready to be put as leaves into
this kind of tree, ie. specific enough.
--
\/ille Skyttä
ville.skytta at xemacs.org