add README.md for contrib directory

[mcprentiss]

This is not important but having a README.md in the config contrib directory would be helpful.
There is a lot of good stuff in here but it is a bit hard to find.
The formatting can be improved and made more beautiful, but this is a start.

[jiahao]

+1

Perhaps a table?

[mcprentiss]

sure. something like...

Julia Config directory README

Name	Description
ackrc	config for Ack
BBEditTextWrangler-julia.plist	language module for BBEdit and TextWrangler text editors
build_executable.jl	Support building standalone executables
build_sysimg.jl	Build a system image binary
check-whitespace.sh	Check for trailing white space
ctags	Add more keywords to ctags regex
debug_bootstrap.gdb	bootstrap process using the debug build
filterArgs.sh	Update library search code to use only tokens that start with "-L"

[ViralBShah]

How about separate out sections, so that the editor files are in a section by themselves?

[mcprentiss]

okay here is version 2,
they divided pretty cleanly between installation things and editors/debugging tools.

Installation

Name	Description
build_executable.jl	Support building standalone executables
build_sysimg.jl	Build a system image binary
check-whitespace.sh	Check for trailing white space
filterDupLibs.sh	script to filter out duplicate libraries
fixup-libgfortran.sh	Include libgfortran and libquadmath for installations
install.sh	installation script with different permissions
julia.appdata.xml	Appdata config file
julia.desktop	GNOME desktop config file
julia.svg	julia svg image file
mac/	Mac install files
relative_path.sh	convert absolute path into relative path script
stringreplace.c	Cygwin helper script
vagrant/	portable development environment Vagrant install files
windows/	windows install files

Editors + Debuggers

Name	Description
ackrc	config for Ack search tool
BBEditTextWrangler-julia.plist	language module for BBEdit and TextWrangler text editors
ctags	Add more keywords to ctags regex search tool
debug_bootstrap.gdb	bootstrap process using the debug build
filterArgs.sh	Update library search code to use only tokens that start with "-L"
install-tmbundle	TextMate bundle install script
julia.hrc	Julia syntax highlighting definition for Colorer
julia.lang	GtkSourceView (GTK+ framework) for multiline text editing config file
julia-mode.el	Emacs Julia mode config file
Julia_Notepad++.xml	Notepad++ config file
Julia.tmbundle/	TextMate support files
julia.xml	KDE editors Kate and Kwrite config file
Notepad++_2_Julia.ahk	Auto Hotkey for Notepad++ config file
README.ackrc.txt	README for ackrc config file
README.ctags.txt	README for ctags config file
repackage_system_suitesparse4.make	reinstall_suitesparse4 script
valgrind-julia.supp	support for Valgrind debugging tool

[ivarne]

+1 for that sectioned table. Can you manage clickable links for download

Editors + Debuggers

Name	Description
ackrc (raw)	config for Ack search tool
BBEditTextWrangler-julia.plist (raw)	language module for BBEdit and TextWrangler text editors
ctags (raw)	Add more keywords to ctags regex search tool

I'm not sure the (raw) links is worth the typing effort. Github features them pretty well on the main page. If you use a script to generate the readme, that would be great to include as well.

[nalimilan]

Just a note about the name of the commit: the directory is called contrib, not config. I was really confused about the title of this PR. :-)

[mcprentiss]

@ivarne @nalimilan Thanks I was doing this during the Super Bowl, so I am pleased there aren't more errors. Adding links, etc would hurt the readability of the text file. Should I not be worried about it?

[mcprentiss]

Here goes. I think this is a converged version.

Installation

Name	Description
build_executable.jl	Support building standalone executables
build_sysimg.jl	Build a system image binary
check-whitespace.sh	Check for trailing white space
filterDupLibs.sh	script to filter out duplicate libraries
fixup-libgfortran.sh	Include libgfortran and libquadmath for installations
install.sh	installation script with different permissions
julia.appdata.xml	Appdata config file
julia.desktop	GNOME desktop config file
julia.svg	julia svg image file
mac/	Mac install files
relative_path.sh	convert absolute path into relative path script
stringreplace.c	Cygwin helper script
vagrant/	portable development environment Vagrant install files
windows/	windows install files

Editors + Debuggers

Name	Description
ackrc	config for Ack search tool
BBEditTextWrangler-julia.plist	language module for BBEdit and TextWrangler text editors
ctags	Add more keywords to ctags regex search tool
debug_bootstrap.gdb	bootstrap process using the debug build
filterArgs.sh	Update library search code to use only tokens that start with -L
install-tmbundle	TextMate bundle install script
julia.hrc	Julia syntax highlighting definition for Colorer
julia.lang	GtkSourceView (GTK+ framework) for multiline text editing config file
julia-mode.el	Emacs Julia mode config file
Julia_Notepad++.xml	Notepad++ config file
Julia.tmbundle/	TextMate support files
julia.xml	KDE editors Kate and Kwrite config file
Notepad++_2_Julia.ahk	Auto Hotkey for Notepad++ config file
README.ackrc.txt	README for ackrc config file
README.ctags.txt	README for ctags config file
repackage_system_suitesparse4.make	reinstall_suitesparse4 script
valgrind-julia.supp	support for Valgrind debugging tool

[tkelman]

This isn't for Cygwin, we use it everywhere during make install. It's to replace strings to hardcoded paths in binaries. It just has a limited history with the current file name, it used to be called stringpatch but Windows does funny things with admin rights and 32-bit executables that have "patch" or "install" in their names. Here's the history of the file at its old name: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commits/b42d5807cfbae15e520dcf23c3eff32addb3e437/contrib/stringpatch.c

[mcprentiss]

@jiahao @ViralBShah @tkelman I think this is ready to go. I made the required fixes.

[ivarne]

Thanks for doing this!