[xen-tools-discuss] Another xen-tools change I have in mind: Clean up the hooks directory

[Jonathan Aquilina]

i like the idea. it will make it easier for code debugging from a dev
standpoint.

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Axel Beckert <abe at deuxchevaux.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> as the discussion on the list also tends to what distributions are
> supported and which not (yet), I'd also like to share my idea about
> refactoring the hooks directory:
>
> Currently we have one directory for Ubuntu and Fedora named after the
> first supported release which is then duplicated for each subsequent
> release.
>
> I'm sure this won't scale forever. So to minimise code duplication I'd
> like to have one common directory per distribution (e.g. called
> ubuntu-common, fedora-common, etc.) with generic hooks valid for all
> or most of the releases of one distribution and then one hook
> directory per release (e.g. called ubuntu-10.04 or ubuntu-lucid or so)
> which has symbolic links to everything which can be used unchanged
> from the common directory and new files for everything which has to be
> different or only there.
>
> This is more a long term goal and probably won't go into the next
> release or upload to Debian.
>
> Any comments?
>
>                Regards, Axel
> --
> Axel Beckert - abe at deuxchevaux.org, abe at noone.org - http://noone.org/abe/
>
>


-- 
Jonathan Aquilina
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