Re: [PATCH] svn.1, -D option

Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:

> Rafael Garcia-Suarez <raphel.garcia-suarez@hexaflux.com> writes:
>
> > I've not really thought about the problem, but
> > looks like a couple /*markers*/ in main.c plus a Perl script could
> > do the job. (I'm inclined to use Perl for such tasks.) Is perl required
> > by the build process ?
>
> No. For a script to run at tarball install time it would have to use
> only those things required by configure, so shell, sed, grep, etc. We
> don't require python to install a tarball, only to run the tests.

However, if you want to write a Perl/Python script that generates the
man page from main.c, or from the svn help text itself, we could still
use it :) We would just have a developer run it every now and again,
and check-in the result.

-- 
Philip Martin
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