[Kstars-devel] Reorganisation of the sources layout

[James Bowlin]

On Sun February 22 2009, Médéric Boquien wrote:
> i propose to reorganise then as follows:
> * optional compoments (indi, cfitsio, xplanet) are entirely
>     self-contained in their own directory
> * the icons move to icons/
> * the options move to options/
> * all other dialogs move to dialogs/
> * the base classes for sky bodies (ksplanet.* for instance) move to
>     skybodies
> * the related objects (starobject.* for instance) move to skyobjects
> * skycomponents is renamed as skymapcomponents 

I like this idea!

Here is a suggestion: the classes in your skybodies/ directory are
descendants of SkyObject so I think they would go better in the 
skyobjects/ directory because they are all SkyObjects, although
they might go into a subdirectory under skyobjects/.  I think
the directory structure should follow the class structure where
this is possible.  Also, some of the classes that you have in the
skyobjects/ directory are not SkyObject descendants which could
be confusing.

Likewise, most of the files in skycomponents/ are subclasses of 
SkyComponent so the current directory name makes sense to me.

I think we might run into a consistency problem when some subdirectories 
follow the class structure and others follow the functionality.  I'd be
willing to live with this inconsistency if we add a README file that 
explains the directory layout.  Perfect is the enemy of good.

> Of course i volunteer to move the files once we agree.

Moving the files is the easy part.  Changing the #include's  will be 
more work, I suspect.

Also, Akarsh might be using this time to make substantial modifications 
so we would want to coordinate the commits for the minimum disturbance
of ongoing work.

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Peace, James