Mike Meyer wrote: > 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.
This is the one we're talking about. -- Angus
