From: Matthias Matousek <matthias.matousek@uni-ulm.de>
  To  : <masqmail@marmaro.de>
  Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:52:28 +0200

Re: [masqmail] contrib and misc

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:32:33PM +0200, markus schnalke wrote:
> Hoi,
> 
> I'm preparing the 0.3.0 release, currently. :-)
> 
> I added two more scripts to the contrib directory: `guess-hostname'
> and `config-transition'. Both help users to set up or upgrade
> masqmail.
> 
> Then the question came up: What's the difference between contrib and
> misc, and what should they contain?
> 
> Currently it's:
> - contrib: stuff that users might want but not need
> - misc: stuff for developers
> 
> `contrib' comes from `contributions', i.e. third-party stuff that we
> distribute, too. The two new scripts do not match then.
> 
> There are two ways to go:
> 1) leave the names and make the people accustom themselfs.
> 2) rename the directories.
> 
> Of course, the second option is preferred. But we need better names
> then. The best I came up with is:
> 
> - contrib: stuff from others that users might want to have (e.g.
>            mailq.wmbiffrc and rmail)
> - misc: scripts that people might want to run for setting up masqmail
>         (e.g. config-transition and guess-hostname)
> - devel: stuff for developers (e.g. are-options-documented, gen-dist,
>          list-versions, and update-manpage-date)

I don't like 'misc'. That's so vague. When it contains set up scripts,
the directory name should imply that. Something like 'setupscripts' which
is a little long, of course. 

matou

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