On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Del wrote:
>If src was for source files, I guess thats the reason we have the TODO and
>the Changelog in there.. (and what ever else files in there) What about all
>those .README's that people include in the patches that get created..
Minor nit, ChangeLog isn't in there. All of the CircleMUD READMEs were
moved into doc/ also.
It's easier for me to make extra patches with the README file in the src/
directory because then I only have to keep a copy of the src/ directories
to work on instead of the full CircleMUD tree. (Discounting creative uses
of symbolic links of course.)
>There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with placing the credits file in this
>directory as you can easily note WHO wrote which parts of the "source code".
>Kind of like the top 5-10 lines of every src file.
I think they wanted it to show up in the MUD. Therefore, putting it in the
source code wouldn't help a whole lot.
>We can probably argue on the concept of which files belong in the src
>directory and which belong in the lib directory for days.. My point is, to
>eliminate confusion, not having to move up a higher directory to include ONE
>file, and people's forgetfulness..
You don't have to make the patch in the src/ directory. You can make it
like so:
diff -uprN circle30bpl12 circle30bpl14
or
diff -uprN stock_circle_code modified_circle_code
I just usually do:
diff -uprN ../stock_circle_code .
because then you apply it in the src/ directory which makes more sense to
me. (Of course, it's supposedly "wrong" to make patches with differing
levels of '/', but it works 99% of the time.)
>Move the credits file to SRC directory. If the patch fails on the Credits
Players can't see it and you make the -d switch less useful.
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