[Dev] new toplevel directory

[Ted Leung]

On Mar 15, 2005, at 12:14 PM, Morgen Sagen wrote:

> +1 for the idea, neutral on the name

+1 for the idea.  I'd prefer 'samples'.  Longer term we might consider 
another directory named 'contrib'. (Actually if we get some people to 
sprint with us at PyCon, this might be no so long term).

>
> If we do go this route, I would suggest that PARCELDIR become 
> PARCELPATH so that it can include a list of directories to use.  That 
> way I could still point at my personal parcel directory and this new 
> 'extensions' directory.

+1.  Actually I think we should do this regardless.

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> On Mar 15, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Alec Flett wrote:
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>>  I'd like to propose a new toplevel directory within the chandler 
>> tree.
>>
>>  Originally, I wanted to call it "sdk" or "examples" because I wanted 
>> to place a skeleton parcel there that anyone could easily pull down 
>> and build themselves, without it living in the parcels directory (and 
>> thus being picked up by chandler - you may have already noticed a 
>> "start here" app in parcels/osaf/examples that defines some pretty 
>> goofy Kind's)
>>
>>  But I realized that it might be a nice place for us to put some 
>> work-in-progress parcels, or other sort of sample-apps, without 
>> hooking them into chandler and being tied to a product release or 
>> anything.
>>
>>  So I'd like to propose this new toplevel directory and call it 
>> "extensions" - it would NOT be part of the build process, but it 
>> would be pulled down by CVS. It would be structured in such a way 
>> that you could set PARCELDIR to point to it, and Chandler would pick 
>> up the extensions. If an extension ever became a full-fledged 
>> chandler feature, then we'd move it out of extensions/ and into 
>> parcels/
>>
>>  Let me know if you agree, object, or just have a better name.
>>
>>  Alec
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