xc/programs considered harmful

[Ely Levy]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Stuart Kreitman wrote:

> Daniel Stone wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 17:34 +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Daniel Stone wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Does anyone realistically care about[0] the following directories:
> >>>xc/programs/xterm
> >>>
> >>>
> >>xterm is being used and should stay exactly at that place. Even when the
> >>only reason is to avoid screwing-up the CVSblame.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Can we please move it to extras/, to reflect the fact that pretty much
> >all we do is import from its upstream, Thomas Dickey?
> >
> >
> I have experience that renaming or moving long-lived file structures
> usually increases, not decreases, overall confusion.

Yea, it does, that what changes do,
and still confusion would pass and we would be left with a better
file stracture.

> >
> >I would be happy to formally propose the move of these to the modular
> >tree.
> >
> >
> The modular tree methodology is not clear- is there a roadmap
> for the transition?  What does it mean to move sources to the modular
> tree? Let's just say there will be a 6.8.3 before modular is ready.
> Would xterm Not ship in 6.8.3?

It's CVS removing it from head doesn't mean it won't be in 6.8.x
I'm preety possitivly sure daniels wasn't talking about removing it from
6.8.x


Ely