[Python-Dev] Slash and burn in Tools/scripts. Objections?

2002年3月13日 18:47:40 -0500

> I would like to be able to comfortably add Python's Tools/scripts
> directory to my PATH because there are some useful things in there.

You mean you really type, e.g. "logmerge.py", with the .py??? When I
have something useful I always just add a symlink to my personal bin
directory.
> However there is also some crap in there. Would anyone object to my
> making some changes to this directory?

Depends on what you want to do.
> Things I have in mind:
>> - move obseleted scripts to, say, Tools/scripts-old or Tools/scripts/old

Which ones?
> - improve the command line interface of some of the scripts to, for
> example, have -h|--help options

Sure.
> - perhaps improve the internal documentation in some of them

Sure.
> - trash which.py and provide a better one that actually works on Windows

As long as it still works on Unix; I quite like what it does there.
Maybe the Windows one should be a different script? I imagine it
would be entirely different, right?
> I just want to see if this would be controversial before I start
> making patches.

If you're not sure, it's always OK to post a detailed plan here or a
set of patches to SF. :-)
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)