Let’s say, while not everybody is convinced, that the so-called src layout is a great idea, at least it is a trend in the Python eco system.

And, e.g. Hynek has written about good reasons to use the src layout.

While my personal and work repositories (mostly) follow the src layout, what about the almost 300 Zope repositories?

all-repos to the rescue

I really love to play with all-repos, an awesome tool to manage and manipulate a large amount of git repositories.

I even wrote a couple of blog posts about it.

Also this time all-repos seems to be perfect fit for this task.

While there is no direct command to get a negative list, it is all possible with the help of all-repos-list-repos and some bash magic.

❯ all-repos-list-repos --output-paths -C all-repos-zope.json | xargs --replace bash -c 'ls {}/src >& /dev/null || echo {}'
output_zope/zopefoundation/BTrees
output_zope/zopefoundation/persistent
output_zope/zopefoundation/ZConfig
output_zope/zopefoundation/zc.zdaemonrecipe
output_zope/zopefoundation/zc.recipe.filestorage
output_zope/zopefoundation/Products.SQLAlchemyDA
output_zope/zopefoundation/zopetoolkit
output_zope/zopefoundation/Products.PluginRegistry
output_zope/zopefoundation/zc.zope3recipes
output_zope/zopefoundation/Products.CMFDefault
output_zope/zopefoundation/Products.CMFUid
output_zope/zopefoundation/Products.ExternalEditor
output_zope/zopefoundation/www.zope.org
output_zope/zopefoundation/zpt-docs
output_zope/zopefoundation/zopefoundation.github.io
output_zope/zopefoundation/meta
output_zope/zopefoundation/website-zope.de
output_zope/zopefoundation/.github

First, this is great - of the almost 300 active repositories, only a good dozen do not follow the src layout yet. Also, some of the listed repositories are even no Python source code repositories, e.g. www.zope.org.

Second,… what does this command mean?

analyzing the command

all-repos-list-repos --output-paths

-> print the relative path for all repositories

-C all-repos-zope.json

-> only for the Zope repositories, not the repositories of my other organizations

| xargs --replace

-> pipe the output to xargs, which replaces the output…

bash -c 'ls {}/src >& /dev/null || echo {}'

-> with the output again, but only if there is a src directory, otherwise with nothing.

thanks

Once again, thanks to Anthony Sottile, who came up with this command.

I would have tried to write a for loop in bash, or even created a Python script…