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[bug-gnulib] Re: aux-dir name
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Bruno Haible |
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[bug-gnulib] Re: aux-dir name |
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Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:40:02 +0100 |
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Alexandre,
> I too would like to find a consensual name for this directory.
Yes. If someday gnulib-tool, gettextize, autopoint and libtoolize shall
be merged, it will be very useful to have a common name for the AUX_DIR.
> I didn't understood your point against the word "tool".
A tool is a program that the developer invokes himself, explicitly.
gcc is a tool. automake is a tool.
config.guess, compile, depcomp, ltmain.sh etc. are not tools: the developer
does not invoke them himself.
texinfo.tex is not a tool - it is not even a program.
> is it just that it is too generic?
It is too generic as well: Many packages already have a tools/ directory.
> I could have called it
> buildtools/ or auxtools/, but unfortunately I like short
> directory names.
What is it actually? It's an etc/ directory for build infrastructure.
(Some people may also call it "packaging infrastructure".)
We cannot call it 'build/' because that's a frequently used name for
the build directory (as opposed to the source directory).
> I've disliked this name since the day I saw someone do
> cd config
> ls
> looking for configuration files to edit.
Right :-)
> For me, a directory named config/ should be either related to
> configure, or contain configuration file. Presently the AUX dir
> has almost nothing to do with configure (who only use a couple
> of files therein).
I agree.
> Bruno> autoconf - used by clisp, ffcall, rxvt
>
> Could make sense in projects where all the aux scripts come from
> Autoconf. Otherwise it just brings more confusion to
> unexperienced developers, who are already not able to decide
> whether they should post on address@hidden or address@hidden
I agree as well.
What about 'build-support/' or 'build-aux/'?
Or, since the whole thing is now named the "GNU Build System", how about
'gbs-aux/' or 'gbs-support/' ?
Bruno
- [bug-gnulib] aux-dir name, Bruno Haible, 2005/03/14
- Re: [bug-gnulib] aux-dir name, Eric Blake, 2005/03/14
- [bug-gnulib] Re: aux-dir name, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2005/03/14
- [bug-gnulib] Re: aux-dir name,
Bruno Haible <=
- Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: aux-dir name, Karl Berry, 2005/03/14
- Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: aux-dir name, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2005/03/16
- Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: aux-dir name, Bruno Haible, 2005/03/16
- [bug-gnulib] Re: aux-dir name, Jim Meyering, 2005/03/16
- Re: [bug-gnulib] Re: aux-dir name, Paul Eggert, 2005/03/17
- Re: [bug-gnulib] aux-dir name - final poll, Bruno Haible, 2005/03/17
- Re: [bug-gnulib] aux-dir name - final poll, Paolo Bonzini, 2005/03/18
- Re: [bug-gnulib] aux-dir name - final poll, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2005/03/18
- Re: [bug-gnulib] aux-dir name - final poll, Bruno Haible, 2005/03/18
- [bug-gnulib] Re: aux-dir name - final poll, Jim Meyering, 2005/03/18