Remove dead branches and cruft from svn

[rcurtin]

Reported by rcurtin on 12 Jan 40066690 22:40 UTC
I notice 'fastlib', 'fastlib2', 'fastlib3', 'fastlib-cmake' in the svn tree but only 'fastlib2' has been touched recently. 'fastlib-cmake' was never reintegrated into the project. The status of that needs to be fixed.

We should also move to the standard 'trunk/ branches/ tags/' format of svn repositories, because that is standard. If anything the dead fastlib branches should be moved into branches/ with a more accurate description of why they were branched (if there was an actual reason, if there is not, it should be removed entirely). 'fastlib-cmake' should be moved into 'branches/', but it has its own svn tree beneath it (???) which should be removed. Alternately, a 'trunk/ branches/ tags/' tree could be created beneath the 'fastlib/' directory, which is what has been done for 'mathProg' (which by the way is being correctly used, as far as svn standards go).

There is also a good amount of cruft beneath the papers/ directory -- for example, compilation artifacts that are not necessary, such as any .aux files. I don't know if removing that is even worth the effort.

Inside of the 'fastlib/' directory, the 'bin/', 'bin_keep/', 'lib/', and 'include/' directories are unnecessary. They should be generated and populated at build-time, not stored in the svn repository. On top of that those directories (and any other build artifacts) should be added to the svn:ignore property, so 'svn status' doesn't display all that after building.

[rcurtin]

Commented by rcurtin on 22 Jan 40079291 12:00 UTC
Proposed solution:

/fastlib
/fastlib/trunk (put what is currently /fastlib2 here)
/fastlib/tags
/fastlib/branches
/fastlib/branches/fastlib-cmake (put what is currently /fastlib-cmake here)
/mathProg/
/mathProg/trunk
/mathProg/tags
/mathProg/branches
/mldb
/mldb/trunk
/mldb/tags (put what is current /mldb/mssql_* here and possibly /mldb/mldb if that is not dead)
/mldb/branches
/papers (don't touch this mess)

Outstanding still is tylesBase; apparently this is something that is used by a few other projects, but it appears to be dead now. More information is needed.

Nothing is in proposals/ but an empty structure so that should be deep-sixed.

[rcurtin]

Commented by rcurtin on 10 Nov 40087909 21:20 UTC
Now our tree looks like this:

/fastlib
/fastlib/trunk
/fastlib/tags
/fastlib/branches
/fastlib/branches/fastlib-cmake
/fastlib/branches/fastlib-old
/fastlib/branches/fastlib3
/mathProg/
/mathProg/trunk
/mathProg/tags
/mathProg/branches
/mldb
/mldb/trunk
/mldb/tags
/mldb/tags/mldb2009
/mldb/branches
/mldb/branches/mssql_diskbased
/mldb/branches/mssql_inmem
/papers

But, one more thing needs to happen: fastlib/trunk/fastlib needs to move to fastlib/trunk/src, but this can't happen until the build system changes, because modifying build.py to understand that change in every directory is not worth the effort. Therefore this is now blocked by #4, not blocking it.

[rcurtin]

Commented by rcurtin on 22 Oct 41261452 06:22 UTC
Since we are trying to prune as much "FASTLIB" stuff as possible, and the library will be called "MLPACK", then everything should go under src/ and it should look a little more like this:

/mlpack
/mlpack/trunk
/mlpack/trunk/src
/mlpack/trunk/src/core
/mlpack/trunk/src/core/io
/mlpack/trunk/src/core/tree
/mlpack/trunk/src/allknn
/mlpack/trunk/src/allkfn
/mlpack/trunk/src/emst
...

So, everything that used to be under "fastlib/" should now be under "core/".

[rcurtin]

Commented by rcurtin on 18 May 4169941 13:26 UTC
Minor modification to this scheme:

/mlpack
/mlpack/trunk
/mlpack/trunk/src
/mlpack/trunk/src/core
/mlpack/trunk/src/core/arma_extend
/mlpack/trunk/src/core/io
/mlpack/trunk/src/core/kernels
/mlpack/trunk/src/core/math
/mlpack/trunk/src/core/optimizers
/mlpack/trunk/src/core/tree

/mlpack/trunk/src/methods
/mlpack/trunk/src/methods/emst
/mlpack/trunk/src/methods/fastica
/mlpack/trunk/src/methods/mvu
/mlpack/trunk/src/methods/nca
/mlpack/trunk/src/methods/neighbor_search
/mlpack/trunk/src/methods/regression
/mlpack/trunk/src/methods/series_expansion
...

[rcurtin]

Commented by rcurtin on 3 Jun 41920038 22:36 UTC
This was actually finished a while ago. The directory structure is finalized, and all the old stuff is removed.