[Distutils] docs/ vs doc/

[Georg Brandl]

Am 21.09.2010 12:35, schrieb anatoly techtonik:
> Hi,
> 
> I see that distutils2 promotes storing documentation in docs/
> directory while Python sources use Doc/
> I'd like to see this changed before distutils2 is released beta.
> 
> In my projects checkouts there are 80 project that use doc/
> directories. Among these are:
> - subversion
> - hg
> - sphinx
> - trac
> - scons
> - twisted
> 
> docs/ directory is used by 61 project, the most famous are:
> - xalan
> - fop
> - moinmoin
> - cmd2
> - googlecl
> 
> 
> There are some arguments for 'doc/':
> 1. there is no plural for 'documentation'

FWIW, "docs" is probably short for "the documents".

That said, I have no preference and as long as a solution works with both
doc/ and docs/ it's fine with me.

Georg

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