[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/4 v2] tools: move test-pkg out of support/scripts

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Arnout, Thomas, All,

On 2017-06-22 10:30 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 22-06-17 10:13, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 09:57:36 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> > 
> >>> No strong opinion on whether such a move is desirable, but at the very
> >>> list I believe we should not add this 00-README.txt file. Nowhere else
> >>> in the tree we have files named like this, and I don't think we should
> >>> start adding these.  
> >>
> >>  Well, we have readme.txt in boards/, we have a README at the top level, we have
> >> a README generated by legal-info, we have a readme.txt in checkpackagelib... We
> >> indeed don't have a 00-README.txt though. IMO all of these files should be
> >> called README.md (or readme.md) so they are nicely formatted when viewed online.
> >>
> >>  For this particular instance, I do like having some kind of README there. We
> >> need an overview of the existing tools somewhere, and I think a README file is a
> >> more appropriate place than the manual because it's easier to keep consistent.
> >> From the manual you can point to the directory.
> > 
> > ACK, but then, named "readme.txt", to match what we're doing elsewhere:
> > 
> > $ find . -name 'readme.txt' | wc -l
> > 99

OK, I'll re-instate the readme, and will change its name to readme.txt.

>  Well, the point I tried to make in the paragraph above is that readme.txt is
> not a great name, readme.md would be better so it gets nicely formatted when
> viewed online on github, gitlab, etc and also in some editors. README.md is even
> better because then it is sorted first - which for the tools directory is very
> relevant IMO.
> 
>  Note that 96 of those 99 readmes are in board/. But they still should be called
> readme.md :-)

IIUC, github et al. expect README.md to contain Markdown, not plain
text. A simple README (or maybe readme as well) would still be
displayed, but no rednering would be done.

In any case, this is a topic for a completely different series.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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