Hi Saira, On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 11:42:58AM +0100, Saira Hussain wrote: > On 8/9/19 10:36 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > I guess after the outreachy project you are fully equiped with all > > knowledge to build the first package from scratch yourself. ;-) > > > That sounds like a nice challenge! To be honest, I wish there was a bit more > uniform way of writing apps! It seems that there are no standards in this > sense and I have this problem myself when I start a new app. > > Should I have a src file?
You need a source archive. > Some people have examples folder, some have tests > folders with examples, etc. Very complicated! I need to admit there are **way** more complicated things around than just differently named folders. In this case the difference makes even sense: Some upstreams are providing a test suite and some simply deliver some examples. > I know you can't enforce > everyone but some good practices will be awesome! Even inside Debian we fail to set a comon standard. Its quite good inside the Debian Med team but I have seen lots of different ways to approach the same thing. > I've seen a few articles about Python and it seems sometimes there are more > uniform projects but still I can't seem to be able to decide the best way. > Sometimes there are even cpp and header files all in a flat structure. There are way worse things than this around. Trust me. ;-) > > Uploaded. Thanks for your work on it and have fun with the next > > package of your choice > > > Great. Thanks for all your help, patience and support! You are welcome, Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
