agreed. i've always felt it was misplaced, in relation to the source
tree. i understand that it needs to be somewhere findable, but out of
the way, after installation, since we don't want to require perl. i'd
love to see it at the top level in the source tree.
I'm certainly opening to moving contrib.
continuing with the why-is-that-there questions, what is ./guide for? it
looks like it's an editor config file. is it something more?
Well, there is actually a decent log entry for it:
commit 8ae9c34707bcd3d06d9856bc71003cc306b9c912
Author: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon(_at_)orthanc(_dot_)ca>
Date: Wed Oct 1 17:20:38 2014 -0700
Add a 'guide' file for acme(1).
If we ever find more than one acme user working on the source,
the single-guide-file premise might need a review.
Ultimately, there should be a way for the configure script to
search for and import a personal guide file from the developer's
$HOME or some such. The next person to come along can figure
that out.
--Ken
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