Re: [seam-dev] trunk cleanup

On 7 Jul 2010, at 18:52, Dan Allen wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Pete Muir <pmuir(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > On 6 Jul 2010, at 13:31, Dan Allen wrote: > > > Stuart also suggested renaming modules to trunk, or as I suggested making a SVN-style symlink using svn:externals. The purpose would be to make it more obvious to people what to checkout. > > > > /trunk -> /modules > > No. This is completely counterintuitive and breaks all conventions around SVN. > > Okay. I agree. > > > I'd like to nuke the following directories from the Seam repo, which I don't believe are currently being used. > > > > http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/seam/trunk/ (each component has it's own trunk in Seam 3, so this trunk is erroneous; all Seam 2 stuff is under a branch) > > http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/seam/seam-gen/ (the real encore is in /sandbox) > > Agreed. > > Cool.

> > > > > > I would like to consolidate /build and /dist under a single folder. They are both build/packaging related and I think they should be seen as a single top-level unit. They are this way in Weld. > > No. These need to remain separate, they have different release cycles and thus different trunk, branch, tag. > > I'm assuming that's because the idea of a dist in Seam 3 is much different than that of Weld. So the dist needs to be a separate entity. I'll include your points in the readme. It is - I actually screed this up in Weld a bit. The idea behind a dist is that it represents the aggregation of released modules, whilst build is something that each module depends on. Looks like I never wrote this stuff up. It's back on the todo list.