Paul Eggert wrote: > MODULES.html.sh is so slow that I no longer run it and I expect > that I'm not alone.
For this reason, Karl runs the script daily and publishes it at http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html For me, that's enough of a fix, practically speaking. > If Thien-Thi's fix works reliably on GNU development platforms, > it would make sense to use it until somebody volunteers to come up > with a nicer fix. I disagree: Thien-Thi's rewrite contains another copy of the parser for module description files. Which increases the maintenance effort the next time we extend the module description syntax. I don't want this; I prefer to have the module description parser in a single place. It has the effect that a single "./gnulib-tool --extract-filelist strerror" takes ca. 0.3 seconds. If that is considered a big problem, then let's *move* the module description parser to a different programming language (C for example - a language that is fast and that everyone here knows well). But let's not *duplicate* it. Code duplication is always a mistake. Bruno
