[deimos] [tutorial] [rfc] How to set up a git repository to simplify keeping bindings up to date

[Johannes Pfau]

Johannes Pfau wrote:
>mta`chrono wrote:
>>Hey Johannes,
>>
>>thanks for your great effort of writing a tutuorial. Later on you'll
>>have to import the bindings this way:
>>
>>import systemd.deimos.sd_daeamon;
>>import systemd.deimos.sd_readahead;
>>
>>I rather prefer something like this:
>>
>>import deimos.systemd.sd_daeamon;
>>import deimos.systemd.sd_readahead;
>>import deimos.mysql.mysql;
>>import deimos.cairo.pdf;
>>import deimos.cairo.svg;
>>import deimos.gtk.gtk;
>>
>>- mta`chrono
>
>Hi,
>the tutorial focuses on setting up branches to allow easy merging of c
>changes, the directory names aren't that important.
>
>Although I don't want to have a systemd.deimos namespace, it's meant to
>be deimos.sd_daemon and deimos.sd_readahead. I think adding a 'systemd'
>in there would make sense but Walter wanted libraries in deimos to
>follow the naming convention deimos.[c header name] and systemd uses
>two toplevel headers.

Scratch that, turns out the headers are actually in a systemd folder.
Ubuntu doesn't provide a systemd package, and the directory structure
is not visible in the source package. So it'll be
deimos.systemd.sd_readahead ;-)

>
>The reason for the additional systemd folder is that you don't want
>all repositories to be named as "deimos". However, it'd probably be
>good to add explicit moule names to the modules to make that clear. 


-- 
Johannes Pfau