[Harbour] About some readme.txt and tests dirs

[Lorenzo Fiorini]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Viktor Szakáts <harbour.01 at syenar.hu> wrote:

> Yes, I agree. I can remove these (except test.txt
> which is needed by the test program).

Oops I didn't check it. I think it's better to use famous "Lorem
Ipsum" for text samples.
Actually it seems a "messy license" text.

> These also seem outdated and redundant:
> doc/funclist.txt
> doc/lang_id.txt
> doc/hrb_faq.txt
> doc/howtomak.txt
> doc/hbmake.txt

Good.

> Here I disagree, since IMO it's better to keep
> everything belonging to one contrib inside one
> subdir for separation of components.

No problem it was just an idea.

> For the SVN that is, for a distributed binary package, it would
> be indeed very good to provide a subdir with all the
> samples in it:
> /samples/tests/*.* (from /tests/)
> /samples/<example dirs>/*.* (from contrib/examples/)
> /samples/<contrib name>/*.prg (from contrib/*/tests/)

I wouldn't mix binaries and sources.
F.e. under *nix you normally don't have the rights to create files in
the install dirs.
It means that you can't compile there.

I think it's better to provide a zip with all the samples inside.

> I don't know, but last time this file didn't work for me
> on Windows either (it said it's corrupted). Since the test program
> is expecting this file to exist, it would be good to change it to
> create its own test files automatically (possibly a format which
> is portable).

Is there anyone in charge for odbc? If not I'll check it.

best regards,
Lorenzo