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

[Inge Wallin]

On Sunday, February 17, 2013 18:54:00 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> 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 outdated, so at least the OpenSUSE packaging spec I recently saw just dumps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.

+1

> Now your better ideas :)

Not this time :)

> Cheers
> Friedrich
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