Hi Povilas, Povilas Kanapickas writes:
> Hi, > > The genesys backend on the current master comprises of 42 files. I > propose to move it under `backend/genesys`? The same could eventually be > done to other larger backends (or maybe even all backends) as the > `backend` directory is becoming hard to navigate. I agree that for backends that consist of more than a "handful" of files it may be convenient/desirable to move them into a directory of their own below backend/. If doing so, we would need a naming convention and what you suggest, using the backend's name as the directory name, makes sense and works fine. Moving things to a dedicated backend/$BACKEND_NAME directory also makes it slightly more convenient to limit searches and may make recompiling a bit more performant (depending on how you integrate the build bits). One question though, what are you're thoughts on the automake end of this approach? There are a couple of options here: - add a SUBDIRS variable to backend/Makefile.am and write a dedicated Makefile.am for your backend. This approach will not be able to benefit from any common settings in backend/Makefile.am but keeps it content focussed on the backend at hand. - just insert the directory name everywhere in backend/Makefile.am for files related to your backend. This simply makes that file a tad more verbose. You'd still be able to benefit from common settings but backend/Makefile.am would still have to cater to all backends. - extract the backend/Makefile.am bits for your backend into a snippet for inclusion in backend/Makefile.am. The snippet could either live in backend/ or in backend/$BACKEND_NAME. In both cases I would call it $BACKEND_NAME.am and in both cases it would have to include the $BACKEND_NAME directory in file names. This approach would be able to benefit from common settings in backend/Makefile.am and keep focus on the backend at hand nevertheless. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
