libqof/qof

Christian Stimming stimming at tuhh.de
Tue Apr 5 16:28:33 EDT 2011


Am Dienstag, 5. April 2011 schrieb Geert Janssens:
> On dinsdag 5 april 2011, Christian Stimming wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 5. April 2011 schrieb Geert Janssens:
> > > The recent cleanups in the qof code brought this to my attention again.
> > > The qof source is stored in src/libqof/qof/
> > > 
> > > No doubt this is a historical leftover from the time that Neil was
> > > working to make qof an independent library. Clearly GnuCash doesn't
> > > intend qof to be a separate library anymore. So I wonder, is there
> > > anything preventing us from moving the source from src/libqof/qof/ to
> > > src/qof/ ?
> > > 
> > > It's one small change to make the source tree structure a little more
> > > logical.
> > 
> > Yes, but that source tree change will also make back-porting of changes
> > almost impossible, unfortunately. Do you think we should already give up
> > the potential for back-porting qof/* changes?
> 
> That was my only doubt. I guess it's too early to give up on backporting
> potential qof changes.
> 
> I'll keep this change in mind for a later time when there are no plans
> anymore to release 2.4 releases.

Yes, I think this is the better choice for now. Although I'd support your move 
wholeheartedly, but well, back-porting has some value, too...

Regards,

Christian


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