Reimplement mksplit.pl in C

2010-04-02 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, somewhere I read that a reimplementation of mksplit.pl in C was needed in order to remove a dependency of dpkg on Perl, but I can't find the reference anymore. Oddly enough I don't see a dependency of dpkg on perl either: Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.6.1 Replaces: manpages-de (<= 0.4-3),

Re: Reimplement mksplit.pl in C

2010-04-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > somewhere I read that a reimplementation of mksplit.pl in C was > needed in order to remove a dependency of dpkg on Perl, but I > can't find the reference anymore. I could only find approx one reference for this goal [1]. Luckily, even if that doesn’t pan out

Re: Reimplement mksplit.pl in C

2010-04-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Some test cases (or methods for producing them) would make me very > happy. dpkg doesn’t have enough automated tests of basic functionality. > Automake provides a rudimentary test harness [2]. Given that a fair bit of dpkg is written in Perl, which means that people ar

Re: Reimplement mksplit.pl in C

2010-04-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonathan Nieder writes: >> Automake provides a rudimentary test harness [2]. > > Given that a fair bit of dpkg is written in Perl, which means that people > are already familiar with the Perl test harness, you may want to consider > using my C TAP Harness framework for writi