yes, this sounds good
Eric, you might want to discuss your project specifically with the
guys from Spacenoth/SoS since they try to redo the whole directory
structure and might be interested to provide their input in such a
project...
On 5/11/07, John McNabb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sounds reasonable to me.
>
> On 5/11/07, Eric S. Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Some of you know that, with encouragement from other devs, I'm doing a
> > cleanup and reorganization of the Wesnoth directory layout. The immediate
> > motivation is to make correct behavior easier for tools like wmlscope
> > and wmllint, but there are long-standing issues about our data layout
> > beneath these symptoms.
> >
> > After staring at the layout for a while, I think one source of
> > grubbiness is that we've used directories to create a sort of
> > half-baked package structure without making them package objects.
> > The way capaigns are laid out is representative; for a campaign
> > named "Battle of Foobar" there will be a Battle_of_Foobar.cfg
> > and a Battle_of_Foobar directory, with the directory sort of
> > accidentally a package by virtue of {}-inclusions in the .cfg.
> >
> > I have a proposal for a small extension of preprocessor behavior to
> > make things cleaner.
> >
> > New rule: When a directory reference like {foodir/} resolves
> > to a directory containing a file named "%main.cfg", it is treated
> > as though the reference had been {foodir/%main.cfg}.
> >
> > With this rule, Battle_of_Foobar.cfg can move to Battle_of_Foobar/%main.cfg.
> > The directory Battle_of_Foobar becomes a self-contained package. Including
> > it processes %main.cfg and whatever files %main.cfg chooses to include.
> > --
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