Questions we ought to be able to answer

[Peter Lobsinger]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Kevin Polulak <kpolulak at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:28 PM, James E Keenan <jkeen at verizon.net> 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.

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> - Kevin Polulak (soh_cah_toa)
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