[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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