[En-Nut-Discussion] Moving to Subversion

[Harald Kipp]

Hi all,

As soon as remaining bugs in 4.7 are fixed, I will create a new branch
4.8 to get a new stable release published.

As suggested by Thiago and others, we may finally take the chance and
move the resulting CVS HEAD 4.9 to a Subversion repository. I do have
some SVN experience (egnite is using it internally for some time), but
not with the Sourceforge implementation. And I never converted a project
from CVS to SVN. Anyway, some hints had been posted in this list and
I'll probably find more in the web.

While moving, we may be able to solve another problem, which is caused
by the current directory structure. When using the GNU autotools for the
first time, conflicts appeared.

The source tree nut became the top directory when running 'make
distcheck'. This introduced conflicts with existing files, which had
been solved by renaming files or moving them to lib/. The remaining
problem is, that the Linux/OS X user must manually create a new top
directory, install the distribution in that directory and manually
create a link (e.g. linking nut to ethernut-4.6.4).

I'd suggest the following new structure

trunk/
  nutos/
    nut/
      app/
      arch/
      ...
tags/
branches/

with nutos as a new top level directory containing the configure script
etc. and the existing source tree nut/ in a subdirectory.

This way we will get the same top level structure when installing Nut/OS
on different platforms

ethernut-x.y.z/
  nut/
  nutapp/
  nutbld/

Comments?

Harald