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[Python-Dev] Structural cleanups to the main CPython repo

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Tue May 28 15:31:08 CEST 2013 
2013/5/28 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> Le Tue, 28 May 2013 22:15:25 +1000,
>> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>> I have a feature branch where I'm intermittently working on the
>>> bootstrapping changes described in PEP 432.
>>>
>>> As part of those changes, I've cleaned up a few aspects of the repo
>>> layout:
>>>
>>> * moved the main executable source file from Modules to a separate
>>> Apps directory
>>
>> Sounds fine (I don't like "Apps" much, but hey :-)).
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know any other short word for "things with main
> functions that we ship to end users" :)

"Bin" is quite common (if ironic). I think it would be fine two if
that stuff was in Python/; anywhere is better than modules. (Care to
move the GC, too?)



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Regards,
Benjamin
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