Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re organizing directory layout (was Re: Bizarro Makefile_insert usage

Peter Moulder wrote:

If the existing library assignment is a working one, then another idea (or at least starting point) would be to try moving files but keep the existing library assignment: i.e. keep existing foo_libfoo_a_SOURCES lines but just adjust leading directories of individual .cpp files as appropriate.

That would be a management nightmare. Currently there is no good cure for the long link time. The real solution would be to make parts of Inkscape less dependent on each other, so that the static libraries built from directories would really represent something, instead of being just an arbitrary grouping of files. This process is ongoing, but it's a slow one (it's labelled as "inkcore" on the roadmap).

Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński