RFC: cleanup tools/, split into developer tools and user extras

Friedrich W. H. Kossebau kossebau at kde.org
Sun Feb 17 17:54:00 GMT 2013


Hi,

tools/ is turning into a dumping ground for all kind of stuff that does not 
fit into the other dirs. 

At least packagers are left with guessing as e.g. the tools/README is 
outdated, so at least the OpenSUSE packaging spec I recently saw just dumps 
everything into one package calligratools. Surely not perfect.

User-oriented:
calligra
okularodpgenerator
properties
quickprint
converter
thumbnail

Developer-oriented:
cstester
fixsrc
iconcheck
scripts
slidecompare

Any proposals how to reflect this splitup in the directory hierarchy?

My idea woud be to move all user-oriented stuff into a new toplevel dir named 
"extras/", as "tools" seems rather standard to contain developer utilities, 
while "extra" somehow sounds like more-useful stuff, so packagers should 
better get it, next to updated READMEs.

Now your better ideas :)

Cheers
Friedrich



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