[Omake] "lib/contrib" area?

[Jason Hickey]

I've been thinking the same, for a different reason.

The GTK/Fuse/ODBC stuff I've been working on should really go in a  
contrib area, not "tests/dll".

I used to put it in contrib, maybe it is time to put it back.

Questions:
    - Some contrib have source and install themselves elsewhere.  Are  
these the right places?
         omake/contrib : source (for projects that need it)
         omake/lib/contrib : scripts

    - Is the contrib directory a flat listing of projects, or is  
there more structure?

Jason

On May 23, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Aleksey Nogin wrote:

> I was reflecting on the fact that we are constantly very slow to  
> respond to people's ideas on various add-on and alternative ways to  
> build things (e.g Automake.om and the alternative C build system  
> with more support for toolchain selection).
>
> Perhaps the way to address this would be to create a lib/contrib  
> area where we could put other people's ideas even if we do not  
> (yet) have time/energy to fully review them and decide whether we  
> want to make their suggestion a default one? In we want, we could  
> even give people commit access so that they could maintain their  
> contributions themselves.
>
> If we do that, we should add a "syntax/compilation checking only,  
> do not run" command-line option to omake/osh so that the default  
> self-build can verify these contributed files without having to  
> actually execute them (this is so that we can maintain these files  
> through the OMake syntax changes that we are about to start doing).
>
> What do you think?
>
> Aleksey
>
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