RE: A real world user's impression of Subversion

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Sander Striker wrote:
> > On 31 Jul 2003 kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> > > The svn_load_dirs problem is unfortunate, but on the other hand, we
> > > don't really consider the stuff in tools/ to be part of the core
> > > product (at least as far as developer group endorsement goes!). It's
> > > contributed stuff that we include in our distribution solely to make
> > > things more convenient. Perhaps we need to make this clearer, though?
> >
> > Maybe most or many of the stuff in "tools" could be renamed to "contrib"
> > if it is not officially supported by the project? Only the officially
> > supported stuff could be put/left in "tools".
> >
> > That would make it crystal clear in my mind what is supported and what is
> > not.
>
> +1.
>
> > Please don't put "cvs2svn" in "contrib"! :-)
>
> Nor mailer.py, nor ...
>

I would be glad to tackle the re-arranging job if people are interested.
I could produce a list of items to move in to contrib from tools and
present to the dev list and then given the OK, go ahead and move them in
my working copy, build an RPM and make sure the build still works, and
then commit it.

Let me know if people are interested in having this done.

   Thanks!

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