organization

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Mar 29 07:49:43 PST 2005


From: mohamed aslan <maslanbsd at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: organization
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:41:25 -0800

> guys this is not a flame war
> but the linux way in arranging the source file is really better than
> freebsd way, it's a fact.
> however it's easy to rearrange it in 1 min as someone said before.
> but i mean this step should be done from the core team.
> for example all fs has to go in a subdir called fs
> arch specific file should go in subdir called arch/(arch name)
> and so on .

The problem is getting consensus on what is to be done.  Sure, one can
arbitrarily say this goes here or that goes there, but everyone's
notion of reorg is a little different.  It would take a lot of time
and energy to get this consensus, which is better spent making things
work better...

Warner


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