[MapQuery] Directory layout + external libs in Git repo

[Volker Mische]

Hi,

On 11/11/2010 02:19 PM, Christian Wygoda wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am pretty busy doing massive raster calculations using GRASS for an
> freelance project for the last week and will be busy with it for a while
> to come. While watching GRASS eating my CPU cycles, I looked trough the
> code repo and asked myself two things:
> 
> 1) The file and directory layout is not very cleaned up right now. Code
> and OpenLayers mixed in one directory, for example. I'd suggest having
> demo, lib(external dependencies like OL, jQuery), src and test directories.

+1

> 2) We're keep OpenLayers, jQuery and jQuery UI code in our own repo. I'd
> suggest not to do that, instead have a strict layout (see above) and
> make developers responsible for having the right code available. A
> README file in the lib dir should name explicit dependencies and how to
> arrange files to make demos, tests, etc. work. (is there something like
> pip for python for javascript?)

Sounds like a good idea. Perhaps we can also have a seperate download
that only needs to be extracted into the lib dir and you are set.

Cheers,
  Volker