On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Kevin Polulak <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:28 PM, James E Keenan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 8. What are the purposes of the top-level directories in the Parrot >> distribution? Would they each benefit from short READMEs explaining that? > > I'm still not completely sure about the purpose of all the top-level > directories but here's what I've been able to gather: > > blib - Short for "binary library". Contains the libparrot static and dynamic > libraries. Also includes a pretty printer Python script for GDB (which I > think doesn't belong here anyway).
The GDB pretty printer script is where it is because that's where GDB looks for it - in the same place as the executable or library to which it corresponds. It belongs there more than anywhere else. > -- > - Kevin Polulak (soh_cah_toa) > > > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev > > _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
