Re: group modules into subdirectories

[James Youngman]

On 3/29/07, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> gnulib now has more than 600 modules, some of which are already in
> subdirectories. Still, there are more than 500 modules at the top level.
>
> I propose two new subdirectories in the modules directory, with the aim of
> clarity:
>   1) a subdirectory headers/
>   2) a subdirectory functions/

I think that some kind of categorisation could be helpful.  While I am
not violently opposed to your suggestion, might I propose that we
entertain some alternative strategy?  Perhaps something like this?

posix - for implementing POSIX functionality on broken systems
glibc - for gnulib's implementation of functions available on GNU
systems but not posix (i.e. for things we should sometimes sync with
glibc)

I think also some other arrangement might work: data structures,
string functions and math functions seem to be quite numerous.

James.