[Python-Dev] trace.py and the obscurity of Tools/scripts/ (was: Unittest list)

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "TP" == Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net> writes:

    TP> I don't see how that would be an improvement over leaving them
    TP> in the scripts directory (which, btw, doesn't bother me a
    TP> bit).

    TP> Migration to the library is likely counterproductive unless
    TP> the code is rewritten to *be* a library.  Like ndiff was
    TP> extensively refactored by two people (me and David Goodger),
    TP> over two release cycles, to restructure it as a collection of
    TP> reusable classes and functions.  Even so, a much smaller
    TP> ndiff.py *still* lives in the scripts directory, because the
    TP> specific application of these algorithms-- and cmdline
    TP> interface --it supplies don't make sense in a general library
    TP> module.

That's what I think I meant,... yeah!  IOW, convert the script to a
library module, with a main() and leave a little driver in the
Tools/scripts directory.  I was just thinking that a scripts package
might be a convenient place to dump these little thingies.  But maybe
not.

-Barry