Re: Splitting image-dired.el into smaller files

[Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> I'm working on image-dired.el lately, and I have plans for further
> improvements that would be pretty far-reaching (if I can get that far).
[...]
> My current best idea for improving its organization is to split it up in
> several files along these lines:

I finally got around to this, and have pushed the scratch/image-dired
branch to Savannah.  Any feedback is much appreciated.

Here is the file organization I settled on, but obviously there is time
to change it before it goes to master:

  image-dired/image-dired-compat.el
  image-dired/image-dired-dired.el
  image-dired/image-dired-external.el
  image-dired/image-dired-gallery.el
  image-dired/image-dired-tags.el
  image-dired/image-dired-util.el
  image-dired/image-dired.el

I'm thinking about whether or not we should just obsolete the HTML
gallery generation stuff (image-dired-gallery.el).  The image-dired.el
author Mathias Dahl said in January that he is "kind of surprised to
hear the gallery/HTML/generating stuff is still in there" and that it
"if anything, was a really unfinished hack".[1]

Footnotes:
[1]  https://mail.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2022-01/msg01724.html