On 11/29/05, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 29, 2005, at 1:45, jerry gay wrote: > > the parrot directory structure is large and a bit disorganized. > > let me give you some examples: > > * build_tools/, util/, and tools/*/ each contain utility perl > > scripts. these should be grouped together under tools/, which > > already contains subdirectories > > Yes. But first make sure that build_tools contains really all build > tools, which it doesn't. > tools/dev/cc_flags.pl is AFAIK used during build. OTOH > build_tools/list_unjitted.pl is just a tool. > agreed. it's time to clean house. file names, file locations, directory names, and locations are all up for changing, if and when it makes sense. of course, this will not be done quickly all at once, or without public review, otherwise the developer confusion level would be even worse than usual :)
> > * the editor/ directory contains files for text editors and has > > a generated makefile. there is no reason for this to be a make > > target. a perl script should be created to replace makefile, > > and the dir moved with the other tool & utility scripts. > > Nope - why a perl script for a make job? > due to popular revolt, i withdraw my proposal to move editor/ directory or it's makefile. no reason to swim upstream--there's plenty of other work to do here. <snip issues which have been addressed in other messages> ~jerry
