[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Help understanding Directories in Evergreen

[Bill Erickson]

On Wednesday 18 June 2008 11:39 John van Rassel wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I am just having a few issues trying to understand the different
> directories in Evergreen.
>
> When I look in ~/Evergreen-ILS-1.2.2.0 on both the server I setup, and
> the vmware images,  there are two directories of note; and Evergreen
> directory and an Open-ILS directory.
>
> When I ran the canuck.patch, I noticed it patches the files in the
> Open-ILS directory.
>
> When I build a new client though, it uses the ue.xhtml file from the
> ~/Evergreen-ILS-1.2.2.0/Evergreen directory.
>
> I guess what I am really trying to understand is:  Why does this extra
> Evergreen directory exist.

Excellent question, John.

The Evergreen directory was initially created to act as the PINES 
implementation of OpenILS, which was called "Evergreen".  As such, it 
contains almost exclusively PINES-specific files.  The only set of files in 
the Evergreen directory that are not PINES-specific are the user editor 
files.  They were originally supposed to act as the PINES skin of the user 
editor, but have become the supported and default version, which is why the 
staff client copies those files into place at build time.

The plan moving forward is to move the Evergreen version of the user editor 
files back into the Open-ILS directory and to move the PINES-specific files 
into an external repository or the proposed ILS-Contrib repository to reduce 
confusion.  After that, we can remove the Evergreen directory from the 
repository entirely.  These changes are proposed for Evergreen 1.4.

Clear as mud? ;)

-bill    

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