On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Joe Schaefer wrote:
Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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There is little value and a huge overhead in building the table files by each user (not talking about extra dependencies).
I know our build/xsbuilder.pl has Win32-specific code in it, so I'm somewhat reluctant to simply generate and bundle the pre-built tables.
It might be a good idea for apreq2 to store the output of recdescent under cvs and hand it ready to the users. That's similar to what mp2 does (though it uses C::Scan to do the C parsing).
Not opposed in principle, I just don't want to be personally involved in maintaining those tables.
At least for mp2, Win32 is fine with the pre-built tables (generating them with Win32 is actually broken at the moment, so Win32 relies on someone else making them). However, as you say, there are other things build/xsbuilder.pl does, such as writing Makefile.PLs and adjusting the include/link options, that do require Win32-specific stuff.
Just as mp2 does. I certainly didn't suggest to abolish xsbuilder in the distibution. Only the part that generates the tables.
Maintaining them is a different matter ... Perhaps a script could be set up, run when a commit is done on cvs, that would generate the tables and notify someone if changes are warranted?
We are doing pretty well w/o any scripts in mp2, just commit those when modifying the API. At the moment apreq goes through many changes, so it might add a bit of an overhead. As things settle down, API shouldn't change and therefore tables will be mostly stable and require not maintenance whatsoever.
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