Re: cvs cleanup

[Peter S. <d98...@dt...>]

On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:03:27PM +0100, Marcus Lindblom wrote:
> 
> - [src/gfx]
>   (I would also like to have _all_ graphic related things here.. everything
>   that draws something should be located in this directory, instead of as now
>   having small renderes everywhere.)

Sure, thats the only sane way to do it.. 

> - data/textures is messy too, esp. the outline-textures that serves no
>   purpose should be deleted. I would also be more comfortable with
>   subdirs for terrain/objects/menu/hud or something similiar.

mhm.. a few subdirs would be nice..

>   All content-developing should be put in a separate module, where
>   Picon should put the original maya-files for everything too!

reaper/content-devel ?
And move everything from data/ which isn't needed at runtime to that directory..

> - data/config - perhaps this dir should hold only default settings,
>   and we store user-settings in a new dir config/? Makes more sense to
>   have 'static' gameplay data in one dir, usermodifiable stuff in another.
>   (Should this apply to screenshots and saved games as well?)

I will do something like this anyway, to allow the data files to be stored
in a readonly location, and have user settings (etc) in the home directory.
(think central installation on unix system and multiple users)


> Also, as we've discussed before, we need to put more structure upon
> the headers in src/xxx .. there is nothing separating internal and
> external usage (i.e, gfx/gfx.h is external, gfx/interfaces.h is not), now.
> create a src/include (or similiar) that could hold the external interface?
> We need to work a bit more on the interfaces between modules/modules and
> modules/objects first I think...

A src/include which contains external interfaces, and splitting the other
modules appropriately. This can be done quite incrementally, I believe, so 
there's no reason to wait...



/Peter