Forum OpenACS Development: Re: OpenACS Roadmap 5.3

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23: Re: OpenACS Roadmap 5.3 (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on
Here is a crazy idea on package classification

Do it the opposite way.

Leave all the packages in /packages, saves work, and requires no changes to CVS.

Create contrib/ and the other directories
and symlink to the packages in packages
so ls contrib still gives you the list of packages.

No changes to code required.

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Posted by Sam Nicholson on
Dave Bauer
Do it the opposite way.

Many ideas come to mind. In no particular order.

* Give that man a cigar.

* It's ugly, but in a good way that'll probably just work.

* We already know symlinks work, as that's how we introduce /contrib packages to the APM and keep the CVS happy.

No changes to code required.

Unless I misunderstand, no. In that case it's just another package list that'll eventually fall into disuse. If the RP and APM don't reference the symlink tree instead of the /packages dir, then there's no point in creating it.