rename external/ to deps/ ?

[nolta]

Checking other code into your git repo is a common practice. But this often inflates your project's language stats and may even cause your project to be labeled as another language. We are able to identify some of these files and directories and exclude them.

https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/vendor.yml

[Keno]

How about deps instead?

[StefanKarpinski]

I guess vendor is kind of a standard name, but I've never really cared for it. Other than mild distaste for the term, I guess I'm fine with renaming external to vendor.

[JeffBezanson]

deps seems better. There doesn't seem to be any vending going on.

[ViralBShah]

I prefer deps too.

[StefanKarpinski]

Ok, I'm going to attempt this change. Keep your hats on, gentlemen.

[nolta]

After making this change, our stats will be:

44%  Julia
25%  C
13%  C++
8%   JavaScript
6%   Scheme
2%   Common Lisp
1%   Elixir

[StefanKarpinski]

Unfortunately, there's too much crap in external that has absolute paths hardwired into it when you compile. It's forced me to rebuild everything, which is taking forever. I'm considering just making external a symlink to deps for a while to keep people from having to rebuild everything, but I guess that's just delaying the annoyance. Maybe someone can figure out a script of commands to fix everything in deps so that it works in the new location without recompiling...

[nolta]

Plan B: github-linguist/linguist#159

[JeffBezanson]

That is too funny. I like your style :)
Is there such a thing as a .github file we can include, or is that not yet a real feature of linguist?

[StefanKarpinski]

LOLOLOL. I love it :-)

[StefanKarpinski]

This patch does the rename: https://gist.github.com/7583978a8852b2a4a3bd. However, I'm hesitant to screw over anyone who just compiled everything from scratch today and then has to do it again. Probably not an insignificant number of people given the slashdotting of my infoworld interview. I could make external a symlink for now, or just hold off on this change for a while. What do people think?

[JeffBezanson]

I'd wait to see if there's some other magic we can do, like .github. Even if it requires features (hopefully not julia-specific) to be added to linguist, that would be better than disturbing people over something fairly silly like this.

[StefanKarpinski]

I do like the name deps better though.

[StefanKarpinski]

Here's a branch that does this: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/sk/rename-external-deps. Also available as a gist.