From: MARK CALLAGHAN Date: June 16 2009 9:39pm Subject: Re: RFC: draft of physical structure of server code List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/internals/36920 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Mats Kindahl wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Thank you for your comments. I will try to answer your questions below. > > MARK CALLAGHAN wrote: >> What is the first step? > > Seeing if there are any problems with this approach of a package structure. > > Once this is set, we enable a number of other worklogs (see WL#4737 for rough > list of refactoring issues). > > W.r.t. the physical structure, the next steps are: > > 1. Fixing header files (WL#4877) > > 2. Providing a unified build frame (WL#4875) > > 3. Identifying candidate packages turn them into packages. Sounds good. There will be a little pain for people (like me) who need to update their patches during this transition. But we will be much better off when this gets done. -- Mark Callaghan mdcallag@stripped