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From: Greg Moncreaff <moncreg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: organizing deep source trees with child packages
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On Oct 13, 4:20=A0am, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
wrote:
>
> Drop the directory tree; use a flat directory with full file names:
>
>
> In my view, directories are for very large groupings of files; I often
> have hundreds of Ada files in one directory.
>

In this case the files have coherence at the leaf level (same
functional group, standard)
but the middle levels will change (new adds, old removes)

100's of files?  unless it was auto generated from a domain model,
how can you possibly keep it organized as to what depends on what,
what is separable, reusable; what deals with one interface/component/
peer vs another,
etc