[darcs-users] darcs patch: Move tools/ to contrib/.

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Fri May 8 07:29:19 UTC 2009


Trent W.Buck writes:
 > Fri May  8 12:08:00 EST 2009  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
 >   * Move tools/ to contrib/.
 >   
 >   In other projects where I've seen a "tools" directory, it contains
 >   utilities used during build, rather than by end users.

In Python, the convention is that "Tools" are used by developers
(style checkers, profile analyzers, etc).

 >   I think convention is to put handy little end-user utilities in a
 >   directory called "contrib".  This also indicates that they aren't
 >   maintained as actively as the rest of the code.

This last is the more important issue, IMO.


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