[Python-Dev] Slash and burn in Tools/scripts. Objections? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 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/)