[CODE][CLEANUP]: getting rid of the 3 layer office directory structure

2013-01-23 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Hi,

we currently still have a complex but not necessary 3 layer directory
structure in the office that makes many things more complicate and is
completely unnecessary.

The reason why we have this is historical and not longer relevant and
the question is if we want to get rid of this for our next release?

Our office installation directory structure becomes cleaner and more
straight forward and we can eliminate some potential conflicts with
another derivative product that still hijacked some of our installation
bits (names).

This task seems to be easy on the first look but is more complicate and
more work on the second.

1. files and directories (URE, base layer) have to be installed in new
places, we haver to think about the structure.
2. we have to check library link flags which are currently different for
libraries from the different layers.
3. we have to check and consolidate many configuration files where we
have entries to find the related files/entries in the different layers.
4. we have to check some bootstrap processes and have to check that they
work correct
5. we have to do very careful testing, testing, testing ...
6. ...

Any opinions or volunteers who have interest to help with such a
project? If we decide to work on it, we have to start immediately to
have enough time for testing.

Juergen




Re: [CODE][CLEANUP]: getting rid of the 3 layer office directory structure

2013-01-23 Thread Pedro Giffuni




- Messaggio originale -
 Da: Jürgen Schmidt 

 
 Hi,
 
 we currently still have a complex but not necessary 3 layer directory
 structure in the office that makes many things more complicate and is
 completely unnecessary.
 
 The reason why we have this is historical and not longer relevant and
 the question is if we want to get rid of this for our next release?


It sounds like a good idea. The one thing I wonder about is if
it shall cause trouble to the code being merged but you know
the answer to that better that me. ;).

While here I noticed we started moving some dependent modules
from main/ to ext_libraries/ but things like boost and stlport were
never moved. Is there some special consideration or adjustment
to be done to the build, or is it just a matter of doing some
svn move around the base?

 
 Any opinions or volunteers who have interest to help with such a
 project? If we decide to work on it, we have to start immediately to
 have enough time for testing.


Not volunteering sorry, my plate is full.  


Pedro.


Re: [CODE][CLEANUP]: getting rid of the 3 layer office directory structure

2013-01-23 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 1/23/13 4:29 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
 
 
 
 
 - Messaggio originale -
 Da: Jürgen Schmidt 
 

 Hi,

 we currently still have a complex but not necessary 3 layer directory
 structure in the office that makes many things more complicate and is
 completely unnecessary.

 The reason why we have this is historical and not longer relevant and
 the question is if we want to get rid of this for our next release?

 
 It sounds like a good idea. The one thing I wonder about is if
 it shall cause trouble to the code being merged but you know
 the answer to that better that me. ;).
 
 While here I noticed we started moving some dependent modules
 from main/ to ext_libraries/ but things like boost and stlport were
 never moved. Is there some special consideration or adjustment
 to be done to the build, or is it just a matter of doing some
 svn move around the base?

I am talking about an office installation not the svn directory structure.

Juergen


 

 Any opinions or volunteers who have interest to help with such a
 project? If we decide to work on it, we have to start immediately to
 have enough time for testing.

 
 Not volunteering sorry, my plate is full.  
 
 
 Pedro.