[Scons-dev] SCons Contrib Repository

[anatoly techtonik]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Gary Oberbrunner
<garyo at oberbrunner.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

>>

>> On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 22:55 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:

>> > Hi again,

>> >

>> > How about opening https://bitbucket.org/scons/contrib with various

>> > bits and pieces that people previously posted to Wiki? Tools and

>> > stuff. Learning be example may be much easier than by following the

>> > docs.

>>

>> Any code on the wiki should be removed, wikis are not the place for

>> code, version control repositories are the place for code.

>

>

> Yes, but.  Wikis are excellent places for snippets and small code chunks

> (think about stackoverflow for instance); creating a repo just for your

> little 10-line thing is worse: more effort and little to no gain.  Anything

> larger than a single function though, I agree with you.


Sane diffs, history of changes and ability to browse with your editor is good
for code regardless of its size. Repository has a lower entry barrier than the
wiki. Also it is primarily for code that is more than 10-line thing.

-- 
anatoly t.