In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
> > * sh for the configure script. It would be nice to rewrite it in
> > python, but nobody is brave enough to do it
> It is not terribly long (1600 lines) and most of the code are simple
> test/if/else that can
> be replaced by equivalent Python code. I am not saying that I can do
> the translation
> any time soon, but will you (lyx-devel) test and accept such a
> translated code once
> it is completed? Also, do you have any improvement in mind so that I can add
> it
> in?
Which configure script are you talking about? There's one that builds
the make files, etc. That's actually generated automatically by
autoconf and automake and maybe others. See autogen.sh for details on
how it gets built. Rewriting that configure script means the
developers have to maintain the script, rather than the files used to
generate it. That may not be met a net win.
There's also lib/configure, which is used to build the preferences
file from the environment. I have issues with that script, and
wouldn't mind rewriting it. It's a hand-maintained shells script
originally built with the autofoo commands. Replacing it with Python
is probably a win.
<mike
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