On 11-01-12 06:59 AM, Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Peter Simons wrote:
My question is: What is really the benefit of having multiple packages in one directory? kahl@cas.mcmaster.ca has commented on this question, but his use case didn't convince me. Building many packages at once, an inter-package Make so to speak, would be nice, but this could be separate from the technique of building one package.
I maintain multiple packages in a single directory and a single Darcs repository because I treat it all as a single project. It also allows me to move module files from one package to another without losing the file history. Splitting and merging packages, for example, affects only the package description files. I guess one could achieve a similar effect by keeping the packages in subdirectories of a common project directory, which would act as a Darcs repository. But that kind of directory hierarchy would sprawl more.