On Sun, 17 Aug 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 08/17/2014 03:52 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> >>> - the above layout is for the traditional case of non-native packages,
> >>>   what would be the layout for native packages? how can be differentiate
> >>>   between native/non-native layout?
> >>
> >> Please don't.  It would be Really Troublesome should a package need to
> >> switch from native to non-native, or the opposite.
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
> > Until we have defined what the layout is for a native package, you can't
> > assume this. It's possibly a subset of the conventions for non-native
> > packages + some common conventions in all software projects.
> > 
> > Something like:
> > - branches
> >   - master: main development branch
> 
> Please don't use "master". It's meaningless. It just happens to be the
> default in Git, but that's about it.

It is not meaningless in the sense that it is a widely used convention in
git repositories.

And that's actually quite relevant.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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