Github user mikewalch commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/accumulo/pull/218#discussion_r101530931
--- Diff: INSTALL.md ---
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ source code. Unpack as follows.
tar xzf <some dir>/accumulo-X.Y.Z-bin.tar.gz
cd accumulo-X.Y.Z
-There are three scripts in the the `bin/` directory that are used to
manage Accumulo:
+There are three scripts in the tarball distribution that are used to
manage Accumulo:
-1. `accumulo` - Runs Accumulo command-line tools and starts Accumulo
processes
-2. `accumulo-service` - Runs Accumulo processes as services
-3. `accumulo-cluster` - Manages Accumulo cluster on a single node or
several nodes
+1. `bin/accumulo` - Runs Accumulo command-line tools and starts Accumulo
processes
+2. `contrib/accumulo-service` - Runs Accumulo processes as services
--- End diff --
I thought about having a contrib and a bin directory. I think there should
only be a bin/ directory. Two directories will confuse people. We can
communicate that scripts are optional/add-on in the documentation rather than
the directory structure. To limit the number of scripts in bin, we can combine
many of the scripts in contrib into one or two scripts. If a script doesn't
work or we don't want to support it any more the in the tarball distribution,
it should either be removed or move to a contrib directory in the repo that
doesn't get added to the distribution. Contrib scripts should not be
distributed. As for the scripts in bin/, downstream packagers can pick and
choose what they include.
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