[ros-dev] Component list rewrite

[Thomas Faber]

Hey,

some random thoughts:
- bugs are sometimes related to the build system (e.g. patches for
   cmake files), so that might be a more generalized version of
   host-tools
- shell seems rather broad if it's supposed to include both explorer
   (+dlls) and cmd
- services.exe, svchost, and actual service implementations might work
   in a generalized "services" component
- umpnpmgr feels like it should go in a category with setupapi & newdev
- translations or localization in general might be useful as a separate
   component -- seeing how they're usually handled by different people
   than code changes are
- what about drivers that don't fall under usb or networking? Storage/FS
   might also be an interesting extra category; and perhaps uniata would
   even  make sense separated (seeing its possible default assignee)
- Rtl stuff would go under ntcore? What about CRT?

Sorry for the messy list ;)

-Thomas

On 2012-09-11 01:19, caemyr at myopera.com wrote:
> Hiya
>
> We had a little discussion tonight, regarding changes in component list.
> It is obvious that current list is illogical, unplanned and requires
> urgent changes, with Jira update this is the best oportunity. Initial
> plan was to base upon Timo's Layout rewrite. We had just a small
> trimming done - below is the result:
>
> audio
> applications
> directx (or rather 3d graphics which would allow also mesa/gallium in)
> host-tools
> networking
> ntcore
> sdk
> shell
> usb
> winedlls
> win32core
> +
> rosdlls(
> | | advapi32
> | | kernel32
> | | crtdll
> | | lsasrv
> | | msvcrt
> | | msvcrt20
> | | msvcrt40
> | | samlib
> | | samsrv
> | | secur32
> | | security
> | | fmifs
> | | vdmdbg
> | | userenv
> | | uext2
> | | ufat
> | | ufatx
> | | untfs)
>
> The problem is what to do with some ill-fitting to the current scheme,
> like:
>
> | nls
> | services
> | eventlog
> | rpcss
> | services.exe
> | svchost
> | umpnpmgr
> | spoolsv
>
> and more. Do you see need for more components?