[Quantlib-dev] Reorganization of Git repository

[Luigi B. <lui...@gm...>]

[ cross-posted to quantlib-users and quantlib-dev; apologies for any
duplicates. ]

Hi all,
    I'm currently 3 or 4 issues away from setting up the 1.7 release.

Shortly after doing that, and in concert with the other maintainers, I'll
reorganize the Git repository so that the current, monolithic one
containing all the modules will be split into smaller ones, with one module
per current directory; thus, there will be a repository for the core C++
library, one for the Excel addin and so on.

This will make it more convenient for the maintainers to manage the modules
for which they have responsibility, and will also make it a lot easier to
add new modules.  We had considered doing this when we migrated from
subversion to git, and in hindsight we should have gone ahead at that time.

I'm aware this will cause inconveniences to the 500+ people that forked the
repository on GitHub.  I am sorry for this, and I will try to minimize the
pain: I'll migrate the open pull requests to the new repository, and I'll
try to make some kind of guide to help those of you with local changes to
move them to the new fork. In the meantime, your current forks are not
going away.

Thanks for the understanding. I'll post a timeline as soon as I have one.

Luigi

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