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Re: Names in libguile


"Greg J. Badros" <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:

> > We should have a special devepment directory, maybe
> > "guile-core/devel", which is not packed with the distribution.
> 
> I think it should be packed with the distribution-- free software is in
> part about enabling the users to turn into contributors, so this stuff
> is very relevant for any distribution of Guile.

I think that would make the directory less useful, because that would
mean that we would be more restrictive with what to put there.  On the
other hand, people who use anonymous CVS are aware that they are
looking at developing source, so it is OK to expose them for
half-finished things.

I think a user who downloads a tarball from prep wants the package to
be reasonably clean, at least not filled with large amounts of
half-finished texts.

On the other hand, the user who wants to participate in development
just have to checkout via anonymous CVS.

(Note that what goes into the distribution is defined in Makefile.am,
 not all files in CVS go into the distribution.)

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