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Current implementation is comingling things that ought not be together. There are _some_ similarities between parsing for the different proto types, but they are more different than alike, making the code extremely difficult to reason about. Signed-off-by: Brian Goff <cpuguy83@gmail.com> Upstream-commit: bd4fe9b9867c7633e520130b99e02798f49e6b44 Component: engine
pkg/ is a collection of utility packages used by the Docker project without being specific to its internals.
Utility packages are kept separate from the docker core codebase to keep it as small and concise as possible. If some utilities grow larger and their APIs stabilize, they may be moved to their own repository under the Docker organization, to facilitate re-use by other projects. However that is not the priority.
The directory pkg is named after the same directory in the camlistore project. Since Brad is a core
Go maintainer, we thought it made sense to copy his methods for organizing Go code :) Thanks Brad!
Because utility packages are small and neatly separated from the rest of the codebase, they are a good place to start for aspiring maintainers and contributors. Get in touch if you want to help maintain them!