[Pipet Devel] directory structure

[Brad Chapman]

> Correct?  (That's not the question.)

Right! Okay, talk to you later. Oh wait, that wasn't the question :-)
 
> But, what if we have modules common to all UI's.  There should 
probably then
> be a
> 
>    piper/uil/modules
> 
> directory in the INSTALLATION directory, right?  (not the question 
either)

Well, even though this isn't the question either, I'll answer it 
anyways :-). I don't really see that there will be a need to share 
modules between uils. In the first place, hopefully too many more 
people aren't going to write uils in python (so that we can 
demonstrate that other languages work). Secondly, if there is a lot of 
share functionality between uils, then it should go in the dl, right? 
Common modules is just kind of inviting a mess, IMO, especially when 
people are installing just one UI (how many people besides developers 
are going to have multiple ones). 
    Where do you see the need for such common modules?

> So (here it is), should there be a
> 
>    piper/uil
> 
> directory in the PACKAGE directory?
> 
> I'm getting ready to put it in CVS, and I just wanted to ask this 
first.

The reason I decided to have each different uil (peep or pied or 
whatever else there will be) in the top level directory if because of 
the reason you mentioned earlier, about having uil modules be separate 
in cvs from the main piper distribution. That way, if a user wants 
Pied and it is not included in the main distribution, the only have to 
get the Pied tarball and stick it in the main directory of piper, and 
then run configure with the option --with-pied. On the other hand, if 
pied also depends on this shared modules, and they don't have that 
installed yet, then they need to get that also, and whatever, it just 
seems like a bigger pain to deal with.
    Does this make sense? Whadda you think? Is this way okay?

Brad