Re: [libvirt] proposal: file renames for consistency

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 03:25:31PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: I think its important to look at the directory breakdown, as we have a very uneven file layout: build-aux/ 5 docs/ 225 examples/ 65 gnulib/ 2 include/ 18 m4/ 104 po/ 103 src/ 881 tests/ 8309 tools/ 80 Essentially all the interesting source code is under src/ since we got rid of the daemon/ directory, with a little in tools. The majority of files are in tests/, as example data input files. If we compare '_' vs '-' for the source code, the picture is very different: $ git ls-files '**/*_*' | grep src/ | wc -l 460 $ git ls-files '**/*-*' | grep src/ | wc -l 46 so I have a very hard time justifying that we should rename all our src files to use '-', when the precedent is 10:1 in favour of '_'. In the tests directory things are more complicated, because we require some precise filenames. For example, we have a whole set of files that are replicating the Linux sysfs file structure and those must use _ because Linux used _ in sysfs. We have other files which include the architecture name, and so must be "x86_64", not "x86-64". This prevents us removing almost all use of '_' in tests/, with only a few exceptions. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|