Quoting Diego Biurrun (2016-12-25 13:22:05)
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 02:54:19PM -0300, James Almer wrote:
> > On 12/22/2016 9:07 AM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > This unclutters the top-level directory and groups related files together.
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Now with "avbuild" as directory to store files in instead of "build".
> >
> > Shouldn't it the the other way around? The build system is what should
> > be in the top level directory, and everything else moved instead.
> > What almost every other project does is keep the build system in the
> > top level, and place the actual library and cli source files inside a
> > src/ folder.
>
> I wouldn't mind a src subdirectory.
>
> But even in that case there is no good reason not to group all build
> system helper files into a subdirectory instead of keeping them scattered
> around. More along the lines of
>
> libav/
> libav/Changelog
> libav/README
> libav/src/
> libav/src/Makefile
> libav/src/configure
> libav/src/av{conv,play,probe}.*
> libav/src/avbuild/
> libav/src/libavcodec/
I agree with Nicolas here, having to type one more dir level to get to
the actual files is highly annoying, and I see no real gain in this.
--
Anton Khirnov
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