On 2020-Feb-11, Mark Dilger wrote: > I thought about generating the files rather than merely checking them. > I could see arguments both ways. I wasn’t sure whether there would be > broad support for having yet another perl script generating source > files, nor for the maintenance burden of having to do that on all > platforms. Having a perl script that merely sanity checks the source > files has the advantage that there is no requirement for it to > function on all platforms. There’s not even a requirement for it to > be committed to the tree, since you could also argue that the > maintenance burden of the script outweighs the burden of getting the > source files right by hand.
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