Re: [Notion-devel] Preparing the first git push (was: Re: Using an LGPL license extended with additional terms)

[M R. <mr...@gm...>]

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 19:04 +0200, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:55:07PM +0200, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> > It's up at http://arnout.engelen.eu/files/dev/notion/notion.git 
> 
> I now brought it up-to-date with a few additional changes from ion3plus 
> as found in M Rawash's git repository over at github.

great job, thanks!

> Next step is starting to rename things from ion to notion, in a way that is
> as backwards-compatible as possible.
> 
> A couple of things come to mind:
> 
> directory names: let's simply rename these: a simple 'ln -s' will bring the
>   old names back if someone would like to build a plugin not yet adapted for 
>   notion
> 
> file names: let's simply rename these: simple enough to fix.
> 
> internal C object/function names: let's simply rename these
> 
> exported names: let's rename these, but keep them available under the old name
> for compatibility reasons, too. Perhaps add some 'deprecated' GCC marker if
> possible.
> 
> lua object names: let's rename these, but keep aliases to them under the old
> names, so existing configuration scripts will work (mostly?) unchanged.
> 
> What do you think?

+1 on all accounts, but here's how/when i suggest we should do it:

1. Meet Tuomo's conditions (to make notion installable from the get go;
i'm willing to do this myself if none wants to)
2. Push the result to the official git
3. Devs create personal clones/branches 
4. Hacking (+renaming) session
5. Approved changes get into master/official branch
6. Repeat 4 & 5

0. Allthewhile, we work on improving the website+wiki

Comments?


regards,
M Rawash