Hi Chapel Developers --
Executive summary: We propose renaming the etc/ directory to format/ and
are asking whether there are any objections.
In more detail:
This is somewhat of a recurring conversation, but we didn't get it done in
time for the previous release, so it's coming up again:
The $CHPL_HOME/etc/ directory was originally designed to be somewhat of a
miscellaneous/catch-all holding area for things that didn't fit under
other, more established directories. Over time, it's come to hold a
number of things loosely related to formatting/pretty printing Chapel
source code and nothing else. Specifically:
* the emacs mode
* the vim mode
* a placeholder for our pygments mode
* a few source highlighting tools
In addition, Thomas and I have been talking about adding:
* a placeholder for our Sphinx module
* the chapel mode for the LaTeX listings package
The perenniel conversation is "let's just rename this from etc/ to
something that indicates that it's a directory of technologies related to
source formatting," but then we either stall out on picking a name, or
(last time) it came up too close to the release to feel comfortable doing.
So, the current proposal is to rename etc/ to format/.
[A related proposal was to create a misc/ directory and to put this under
that, but my feeling is that if misc/ only has one child, it feels silly.
That said, in the limit, I could imagine that as other things come up that
don't fit into existing categories and feel miscellaneous-ish, we create
misc/ and put format/ under misc/ at that point.]
Objections? Opinions?
Thanks,
-Brad
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