Re: Splitting image-dired.el into smaller files

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> My current best idea for improving its organization is to split it up in
> several files along these lines:
>
>     image/image-dired-bookmarks.el       ;; bookmark.el support
>     image/image-dired-compat.el          ;; compatibility layer
>     image/image-dired-gallery.el         ;; HTML gallery generation
>     image/image-dired-tags.el            ;; home-cooked image tags
>     image/image-dired-thumbs.el          ;; thumbnail generation
>     image/image-dired.el
>
> The big drawback here is that we will lose the git history.  However, we
> lost most of that already in 2007 when the file was renamed.  From my
> work and what I've seen so far, I don't think I will miss any history
> that won't be massively outweighed by the benefits of better code
> organization.

I think sounds like a good reorganisation, and image-dired could use
some of that.  (And like Stefan M said, the bookmark stuff seems small
enough to just keep in image-dired.el.)

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