[csw-maintainers] Addition to pkginfo for repository path

[Trygve Laugstøl]

Philip Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:22:29PM +0100, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> That is exactly why I suggested a few weeks ago, that you relayout
> to have
> 
> {top}/{firstalpha}/software
>   [eg: {top}/a/amanda/]
> 
> instead of
> 
> {top}/software
> 
> because it would be more scalable over the long term, while still remaining
> consistant.

I don't see the big problem really. Subversion doesn't have a problem 
handling a couple of thousand entries (as an example see [1] with 879 
packages).

If you want to talk organization I wouldn't mind keeping the grouping 
that is already as I usually wouldn't care about cpan or xfce stuff (as 
I don't work on either of those). It is not unlikely that other people 
will re-use GAR to produce packages and that day they would most likely 
have their own "category". I say we structure the svn repository as we 
see fit and move stuff as categories get to big and merge when 
categories get too small.

What Dago proposed should be implemented in any case as that will give 
us the possibility to change our minds later on without the risk of 
loosing any valuable data.

[1]: 
https://pkgbuild.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/pkgbuild/spec-files-extra/trunk/

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