[bind10-dev] layout of build system

[Shane Kerr]

Jinmei,

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 16:30 -0700, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:
> Now I'm ready to start adding code to the main trunk and revisiting
> the repository layout issue...
> 
> At Fri, 2 Oct 2009 08:14:25 -0500 (CDT),
> "Jeremy C. Reed" <jreed at isc.org> wrote:
> > 
> > As discussed on call yesterday, we "need to decide on layout of build 
> > system, headers go here, libraries go there, and so on"
> > 
> > Here is an idea. If this is an extracted tarball, it would be liked 
> > bind10-A.B.C (version) instead of "bind10".
> > 
> > Note this doesn't distinguish or categories by languages used.
> > 
> > bind10/ 
> > bind10/doc/
> > bind10/src/
> > bind10/src/doc/
> > bind10/src/lib/
> >         source for libraries
> >         Makefile.am
> >         documentation and design decisions
> >         source for manual pages
> >         all kept in sub-directories per specific libraries, such as:
> > bind10/src/lib/dnsmessage
> 
> Evan showed his preference of omitting "src".  Is that our decision?
> (I don't have a preference on this).

I actually prefer having "src", but not strongly. Lets discuss it on the
call today?

> "dnsmessage" sounds a bit too specific, considering what will
> eventually be included there.  Maybe a bit too generic, but I guess
> "lib/dns" would be better, just like BIND9.

Sure, lib/dns sounds good. We'll just try to keep it a little more
focused on, well, DNS than it is today. ;)

> Another minor question is whether I begin with a branch or on the main
> trunk for the moment.  I don't see a need for creating a branch while
> keeping the main trunk almost empty, so I'll probably work directly on
> the main trunk until branching is really necessary.

Agreed.

> So, what I'm going to do is:
> 
> - create new directories on the main trunk:
>   ${top}/
>   ${top}/lib
>   ${top}/lib/dns/
>   (where ${top} is either bind10 or bin10/src depending on whether to
>   include "src")
> - add DNS message library code to ${top}/lib/dns/
> - not sure where test code goes, but in my vague memory we slightly
>   prefer the same directory as the source dir.  So I'll also add test
>   code under ${top}/lib/dns/
> 
> If I misunderstand something fundamental please point it out.
> Otherwise I'll soon invade the trunk.

Sounds excellent.

--
Shane