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List:       poi-dev
Subject:    Re: Do we need main, contrib and scratchpad?
From:       "Andrew C. Oliver" <acoliver () apache ! org>
Date:       2006-12-16 4:57:25
Message-ID: 45837CB5.5000403 () apache ! org
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Contrib was supposed to be stuff that will NEVER make it into the 
project proper.  Scratchpad was supposed to be stuff that would 
eventually make it there.  If it has lost distinction then it is fine.  
I think the stuff in contrib has whithered.

Nick Burch wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I've now had a few people ask me what the difference between main, 
> contrib and scratchpad is. The difference between main and scratchpad 
> I'm happy explaining, but it's contrib that's stumping me.
>
> This leads me down one of two thought processes:
>
> 1) someone needs to explain how contrib differs, and we should do a 
> better
>     job of explaining what it is (and why it should remain seperate)
> 2) we should shift the stuff in contrib into main and scratchpad as
>     appropriate, and move to just having two kinds of code
>
> Can anyone enlighten me on 1, or should we give serious thought to 2?
>
> Nick
>
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