Re: [PATCH v2 11/15] qemu-common: move scripts/qapi

[Markus Armbruster]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 at 11:09, Marc-André Lureau
> <marcandre.lureau@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 1:05 PM Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Your moves tear closely related code apart.  This is going to be a drag
>>> for developers in general and maintainers in particular.
>>>
>>> Ergonomics suffer when related code is in multiple places.  Having to
>>> switch between directories and remember where is what will a constant
>>> low-level pain.  Things that used to be simple & quick, like git-grep
>>> qapi/*.c, become more involved.
>>>
>>
>> It's inevitable when a project grows. QEMU is already a very large project. 
>> Over the years, we have structured the project, by moving things and 
>> splitting in subdirectories. Imho, this is actually helpful in many ways, 
>> and we got used to it easily hopefully.
>
> I agree with this. But generally we've tried to do that by
> having the subdirectory splitting and naming match the
> structure of the codebase.

Good: move a bunch of closely related files from . (tree root) and
include/ to new ./whatever/ and include/whatever/.  The improvement in
organization outweighs the pain of moving.

Not so good: split some files off ./whatever into ./else/where/, even
though they are closely related.

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