Re: Collapsed directories in libinterp

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 07/03/2013 09:42 PM, Rik wrote:
> 7/3/13
>
> Jordi,
>
> I went ahead and collapsed interp-core and interpfcn into the existing
> corefcn directory.
>
> --Rik

This is going back to everything in one directory.  My feeling is that 
there really was some sense and usefulness to the categorization, but 
there was a lot of confusion as a result of having, perhaps, too deep of 
a hierarchy but mostly because of choosing names for directories that 
are so similar.

With this change, now things like fft.cc are back in the same directory 
as mex.cc and jit-util.cc.  Those seem so far afield.  Also, DEFUN 
really is a good delineation.  (I wish that DEFUN could be modified to 
make Octave compile faster when touching one of those built-in 
routines--that's the one major complaint I've had from a development 
standpoint.)  I think that having a separation of "interp" and "corefcn" 
makes the most sense and perhaps bringing them back a level so that core 
functions fall under ./libcore or ./corefcn.  Core functions really 
shouldn't be under ./libinterp because things like fft.cc haven't 
anything to do with the interpreter.  The interpreter is some of the 
trickier code to deal with and best left to a few people to fix who 
really know what they are doing.  I rarely ventured there.  Core 
functions, on the other hand, are a little more broad and more 
straightforward--they are easy to work with once one understands the 
Octave data objects.

Dan