On 4/12/2018 13:52, Steven Watanabe wrote:
However then the question becomes: are these scripts only for the maintainer's use (in which case perhaps they shouldn't be in the repository?)
Such scripts belong in the repository anyway. Else what would we do for libraries whose maintainers' disappear? Or if a library has multiple maintainers?
Depends what the scripts do, of course. I was thinking of scripts that used paths or packages local to the maintainer's machine and so wouldn't work for anyone else anyway.
Just provide multiple scripts?
For Windows and Linux, that's not too difficult. What about other platforms? Especially those that the maintainer cannot test?
I agree with Stefan. Deciding how to handle these scripts is the responsibility of each individual maintainer.
That is true, but it's not silly to provide guidelines.