[Kstars-devel] A directory for tools?

[Heiko Evermann]

Hi Jason,

>We should probably at least do the tools subdir.  
>
>I looked at this a bit a few months ago.  From looking at other projects 
>in KDE, it seemed to me that each subdirectory needs to have its own 
>executable target; it was not obvious whether we can have a "pure code" 
>subdir which contributed to the executable in the parent directory.
>
I think it is possible not to have an executable from a directory. One 
place to start might be kdgantt from koffice. It is used in kplato and 
it just produces a (shared) library.

>Another thing: we should be really sure we need a subdirectory before 
>making it, as they cannot be dleeted from CVS once created! :)
>
One could try it with a local CVS. You can add a directory by "cvs add 
dirname; cvs commit dirname". If you then try "cvs remove dirname; cvs 
remove dirname", I think it will be deleted from head and will only be 
found in attic. I am not 100% sure, but in that scenario it would not 
matter that much.

Regards,

Heiko