From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-05-27T20:06:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Project Directory Structure

On Tue, 27 May 2003 18:07:12 +0900, Brian Candler wrote:

> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 03:04:10PM +0900, Simon Strandgaard wrote:
>> abbreviated names is NOT userfriendly to newbies. 
>> I prefer long names (at least in the top-level dir):
>> 
>> src => source
>> doc => documents/text
>> bin => binary
>> ext => config/recipy/setup
> 
> What does "recipy" mean? It's not an English word.

 = recipe..   (im not a native english speaker)

 
> I don't think there's any problem with 'src', 'doc', 'bin', 'ext'. If you're
> a newbie, you're going to have to learn what those things stand for anyway.

Yes you are going to learn those anyway. 
Abbreviations might have saved a few keystrokes in the past. 
But now people have either tab-completion or uses a GUI file manager.

 
> I think Jim is documenting current best practice, not trying to invent
> something which is different and incompatible with current practice.

3 letter abbreviations is NOT good practice :-)


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Simon Strandgaard