On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:09:15PM +0000, Philip Martin wrote:
> 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.
Actually, we'd just make it part of the autogen process, and keep it out of
source control. Thus, people using source control directly would have it
(since they already have to have perl and python), and people using tarballs
(post-autogen) would have it.
Cheers,
-g
--
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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Received on Wed Nov 6 21:23:01 2002