From: Sengan Baring-Gould <sengan@seqnet.net>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:44:25 -0600

Re: Makefile vote

Brian Julin wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Marcus Sundberg wrote:
> > But actually for integrated chipsets the clockdriver should be in
> > the same directory as the chipset driver. That's the only thing
> > that makes sense to me.
>
> I have to rather strongly disagree.  Not only is it quite possible
> for VLSI "components" to be used in more than one VLSIC, but even
> if the components are never found separate it still serves
> to logically isolate the subsystems and makes for neater, more
> organized code.

Agreed. You'll be seeing much more of that as "systems on a chip"become
more widespread. They are macros that companies sell --
not that different from chips but the overall cost should be reduced.

> Let's not create another heaping mound of spaghetti code like X11
> please.

Absolutely. If that happens, the value of GGI will become near-null IMHO.

Sengan