On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Luciano Resende <[email protected]>wrote:

> What are the main issue we are trying to solve with sample folder
> structure ?


One thing is to make the high level purpose of what each sample is for more
obvious to a new user looking at Tuscany for the first time.


> I believe that, by having more granular distributions, the
> amount of samples in a given distribution will be very small, and very
> aligned with the purpose of the distribution.
>

I don't think the granular distributions would help so much here (not that
we've even agreed to have them yet), as I expect vastly most people are
going to just use an "all" distribution.



>
> Also note that in the past, our svn was structured as a folder
> hierarchy which cause confusion to users and new-developers, hence we
> moved to a flat module structure.
>
>
>From my memory thats not what the problem was and people actually liked the
clarity the hierarchy gave, the problem was with the weird way the old
Tuscany was set up and released continually caused various build problems,
that shouldn't be any problem now with the way we do things.

   ...ant

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