ecos-opt

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl@eCosCentric.com>]

Now that 2.0 is out and for the moment we hope, people will be less 
reliant on CVS (or at least there won't be a much better time), I would 
like to do something a little drastic...

As (ex-)Red Hat folks will remember, it was decided way way back to split 
off the network stack and SNMP directories into a separate "ecos-opt" 
hierarchy in the public CVS tree. And so it has remained to this day.

However I've found I still get the odd problems because of this, in 
particular if you use "checkout" as a way to update your source tree, 
instead of "update" it barfs.

So I'd like to finally bring everything back into one tree. I believe it 
can be done fairly easily, by just moving the directories into place 
within the repository and then putting in symlinks directly in the CVS 
repository in the old places to make sure existing checkouts work.... but 
new checkouts would not get those as I would update the "modules" file 
appropriately. It would only really affect things for people using 
"checkout" to update their sources, but since that's already broken there 
can't be many of those :-).

Any objections or suggestions? If not, I'll choose a quiet period some 
time soon to do it.... as you can tell actually doing it is just a few 
trivial commands actually! But of course I'll need to test it.

Jifl
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