Hi Matthew,

Currently, the STLSoft distribution unpacks into several files and directories. However it is quite commonly expected to unpack in a single new directory (See quote below).

Would this be a good idea for the STLSoft libraries?

Regards,
Martin Moene.
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from http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch19s02.html#distpractice :

Good Distribution-Making Practice

These guidelines describe how your distribution should look when someone downloads, retrieves and unpacks it.

Make sure tarballs always unpack into a single new directory.

The single most annoying mistake fledgling contributors make is to build tarballs that unpack the files and directories in the distribution into the current directory, potentially overwriting files already located there. Never do this!

Instead, make sure your archive files all have a common directory part named after the project, so they will unpack into a single top-level directory directly beneath the current one. Conventionally, the name of the directory should be the same as the stem of the tarball's name. So, for example, a tarball named foo-0.23.tar.gz is expected to unpack into a subdirectory named foo-0.23.

Martin Moene Wrote:

> Hi Matthew,
> 
> Currently, the STLSoft distribution unpacks into several files and directories. However it is quite commonly expected to unpack in a single new directory (See quote below).
> 
> Would this be a good idea for the STLSoft libraries?

Yes. :-)