on share reorganization



--- "Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <vvzhy@mail.ru> wrote:
> I'm submitting to the public proposal on Maxima share
> reorganization. The proposal has a form of script
> attached to this e-mail message
> (supposed to be run from /for59 directory).
> This script
> 
> 1) creates new subdirectories in share
>    /share/_trash
>    /share/_unknown
>    /share/_lisp
>    /share/_to_doc
>    /shere/misc
>    /share/algebra
>    /share/calculus
>    ...

Sounds good.
 
> 2) scans old
> share, mac, share1, share2, sharem, sym, tensor
> directories and empties them by either removing
> unnecessary files or moving them to a new location.

Good.
 
> 3) I remove - duplicate files (there are a lot of them)
> and obvious junk like some strange logs etc.
> Almost all lisp equivalents of  maxima .mac files
> are moved into
>    /share/_lisp
> directory. They can be easily recreated by translate_file.
> Some other files are moved into
>    /share/_trash
> (it seems that these files have no value)
>    /share/_unknown
> (mostly assorted pieces of packages which are not
> available). If  everyone agree I suggest to delete these
> three underscored directories.

I agree about the duplicate lisp files and trash files - does anyone
think the unknown stuff may be of use?  I suppose if the routines are
lost there's not point in keeping the documentation around, but maybe
someone can think of a reason?
 
> 4) Some other files are moved into
>    /share/_to_doc
> directory. I think that they may be ultimately
> incorporated into documentation or deleted.

Ok.  Sounds good.  Once the manual is loaded into CVS maybe they can be
moved there, and be gradually absorbed.

Thanks a lot for all your work on this, Vadim.  You've done an
excellent job.

CY

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