Tools should use the review process

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Sun Dec 29 02:58:45 PST 2013


On 2013-12-28 21:28, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> IMNSHO, I think the tools repo needs a reorg. Currently we have trivial
> things like 'changed' or 'findtags' or 'latest-tag', which are
> completely useless to everyone except the core devs (you probably don't
> even know what they're supposed to do unless you read the source code),
> and then we have 'dustmite' and 'rdmd' that generally applicable to
> whoever uses D.
>
> I think this needs to be split into two repos, one for
> production-quality tools that are meant for the end-user, and one for
> miscellaneous quick-hack scripts meant for internal use by the core
> devs. The current situation of dumping random stuff into tools that most
> people may or may not care for, 'cos we don't know where else to put
> them, only makes a laughing stock of D.

Well said. It's most important to have a review for the end user tools.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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