[Python-Dev] Slash and burn in Tools/scripts. Objections?

[Guido van Rossum]

> I would like to be able to comfortably add Python's Tools/scripts
> directory to my PATH because there are some useful things in there.

You mean you really type, e.g. "logmerge.py", with the .py???  When I
have something useful I always just add a symlink to my personal bin
directory.

> However there is also some crap in there.  Would anyone object to my
> making some changes to this directory?

Depends on what you want to do.

> Things I have in mind:
> 
>     - move obseleted scripts to, say, Tools/scripts-old or Tools/scripts/old

Which ones?

>     - improve the command line interface of some of the scripts to, for
>       example, have -h|--help options

Sure.

>     - perhaps improve the internal documentation in some of them

Sure.

>     - trash which.py and provide a better one that actually works on Windows

As long as it still works on Unix; I quite like what it does there.
Maybe the Windows one should be a different script?  I imagine it
would be entirely different, right?

> I just want to see if this would be controversial before I start
> making patches.

If you're not sure, it's always OK to post a detailed plan here or a
set of patches to SF. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)