[tex-live] scripts layout

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Thu May 27 23:14:13 CEST 2004


At 07:30 27/05/2004, Thomas Esser wrote:
> > I found that p4 depot has (perhaps) incorrect texmf[-dist]/scripts/
> > layout:
>
>The current draft of the new tds has:
>
>   The top-level \path|scripts| directory is for platform-independent
>   executables, such as Perl, Python, and shell scripts, and Java class
>   files.  Subdirectories under \path|scripts| are package names.  This
>   ...
>   We recommend using extensions specifying the language (such as
>   \path|.pl|, \path|.py|, \path|.sh|) on these files, to help uniquely
>   identify the name.
>
>So, scripts/context is ok. scripts/perl is not...

then maybe it's already good to reserve something

scripts/allkind/perl
scripts/allkind/python
scripts/allkind/ruby

as a kind of garbage bin for lone scripts or thinsg that don't fit into a 
package

Hans  



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