On 23 January 2010 11:16, John Stalker <stal...@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > As I see it, there are three types of program: > 1) Stuff only one person is ever likely to want. No worth > contributing. > 2) Stuff of interest only to a small group of people. This belongs > in contrib. > 3) Stuff of more general utility. This should probably go in the > main tree unless there is a good reason not to put it there.
I believe that some version of 'find' and 'xargs' would easily find its users and not just few. Another problem with stuff in contrib is, that their software is not well documented (i.e. no man pages), so that one probably has to read the source in order to be able to use it. This often forms an obstacle for usage... Being accepted to the main tree brings along good documentation, too, which is of importance to me. R
