[csw-maintainers] Addition to pkginfo for repository path

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Phil,

Am 03.12.2008 um 18:10 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 04:53:49PM +0100, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>>> 1. modular gar, now makes it easy to automatically determine where
>>>  in the tree a package comes from:
>>>
>>>  (csw/mgar/pkg/{softwarename})
>>
>> Partly. The location is
>>   csw/mgar/pkg/(cpan/|xfce/)?(trunk|tags/<tag>|branches/<branch})
>
> Hmmmm... Intersting about the branches stuff.
> That would make sense to have that info in there then.
> Although seems like the "cpan/xfce" xstuff needs to be ...erm, what  
> is the
> database term... "fully normalized"?  :-)
> ie: no subdirs: we need to have a 100% flat, uniform namespace for
> nice clean auto-building, rather than 95%.

I am unsure about this one. A normalized view is nice, but not
with >700 entries. Subdirs may help here, but cpan/ alone has
 >380 entries. Trygve, from a Hudson point-of-view, do you
have a preference for repository layout?


Best regards

   -- Dago