# folder                # possible contents

~/projects/comments/    # loose files in here are README and the like
    downloads/          # like original tarballs or round-trip checks
    file/               # might be generated or used 
                        #   by a project or utility script
        config/         # user would have these in ~/.comments/config/
    lab/                # non-text workfiles, like graphics
    lib/                # Perl modules under development
    notes/              # more or less English notes 
                        #   intended to guide or track development
    old/                # a sort of rubble pile; next stop, trash
    pack/               # prebuild folder; only stuff intended for release;
                        #   mostly symlinks from other places; 
                        #   and Build.PL and friends; final tarballs
    run/                # Perl scripts of all kinds
        t/              # tests, passing or failing
        not-t/          # bad tests, incomplete tests, dead-end ideas
        regress-t/      # tests converted to run under Smart::Comments
        util/           # nasty little hacks and demo scripts
    sym/                # convenience symlinks (itself a symlink)
    unpack/             # round-trip check of tarballs from pack/
    .git/               # Git repository