What decides a tool to go into a particular directory? As an example adb was in tools/ but has moved to platform-tools/. Why can’t they live in the same directory?
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What decides a tool to go into a particular directory? As an example adb was in tools/ but has moved to platform-tools/. Why can’t they live in the same directory?
platform-tools/mostly holds binaries that will differ from Windows to OS X to Linux.tools/mostly holds JARs and shell script/batch file wrappers for Java-based tools.As for why the separate directories, I think it is to ease distribution and packaging on the toolsmiths’ part.