On Nov 16, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> I'm in the process of migrating repos from petsc.cs.iit.edu to > bitbucket.org, and have to resolve a few organization issues. > > Restrictions. > - all repos should be lowercase > - no subdir organization possible [like > http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/externalpackages/] > > 1. Since we are forced to change reponame from 'BuildSystem' to > 'buildsystem' - I'd like to take this opportunity to change it to > 'buildsystem-dev' to be consistent with petsc-dev. i.e instructions > will be: > > hg clone https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc-dev > hg clone https://bitbucket.org/petsc/buildsystem-dev > petsc-dev/config/BuildSystem > > or > > hg clone https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc-release > hg clone https://bitbucket.org/petsc/buildsystem-release > petsc-release/config/BuildSystem > > and current clones would need updates to .hg/hgrc only. > > one alternative was to change the path in source to > petsc-dev/config/buildsystem but it will cause some breakage and other > inconsistencies in source file naming scheming - so I'm against that What breakage. I really don't like having caps in one place and small letters in another. Horrible inconsistency Barry > > another alternative is to use 'petsc', 'buildsystem', 'petsc-release', > 'buildsystem-release' [but we have too much baggage referring to > petsc-dev, with a mailing list etc reusing this name] > > 2. I plan to reorganize external package repos [that we might have > patches for] with a pkg prefix. > > i.e > http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/externalpackages/metis-5.0.2 > http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/externalpackages/parmetis-4.0.2 > > to: > https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-metis-5.0.2 > https://bitbucket.org/petsc/pkg-parmetis-4.0.2 > > etc.. > > 3. Are AMS, ctetgen, win32fe special packages and be listed at toplevel? > currently ctetgen is listed under 'externalpackages'. Should it be at > toplevel? > > i.e > > https://bitbucket.org/petsc/win32fe-dev > https://bitbucket.org/petsc/ams-dev > https://bitbucket.org/petsc/ctetgen-dev > > Any thoughts? > > thanks, > Satish > > >
