Re: Next for newlib?

On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 at 06:28, Jim Warner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Instead of just proc-2 as the name, I think we should name the installed
> include directory libproc-2 or maybe libproc2 without the dash (or even
> just libproc).  That's similar to some other library approaches.
>

So that would mean for install we would have:
/usr/include/libproc2/*.h
/usr/lib/<triplet>/libproc-2.so


> I don't think it's very important what we name it under our development
> tree.  However, our tree is a bit of a mess even beyond the include
> directory inconsistencies.
>

Currently we have this setup:
. some source for binaries and build system, some project documents
contrib/ Um, a minimal ps, what is this?
doc/ Library man pages
Documentation/ Project documentation in markup style
include/ Local includes headers for binaries and library
lib/ Utility functions for library and binaries, test programs for binaries
misc/ script to generate the git version number
proc/ Library source and headers, plus test programs
ps/ source for ps
testsuite/ test scripts
 top/ top source code

My suggestion:
doc/ Project documentation except for the items that should be in root
man/ Includes all manpages
local/ Contains the headers and utility sources, what was in include/ and
lib/
src/ Source for binaries, there can be a ps and top subdirectory or not.
src/tests source for test programs for binaries.
proclib/ source for library. Not too sure about this, could be libsrc or
srclib or something else. Could even still be proc/
proclib/libproc2 headers for library. The "libproc2" part should be the
same as the install directory is e.g if we decide /usr/include/rainyday/*.h
is the directory, this one would be called proclib/rainyday
proclib/tests test programs for library
testsuite/ Remains the same, test scripts only

This would mean
. -> remain, src/ and doc/
contrib/ Let's see if we can remove this, does anyone use any of this?
doc -> man/
Documentation -> doc
include -> local
lib -> local and src/tests
misc -> move this one file to root
proc -> proclib and proclib/tests
ps -> src/ps
testsuite -> testsuite
top -> src/top