Hi Andre,
thanks for the great work which will help us very much to clean up the
bootstrap process.
... is called download_external_libraries.pl.
I don't like the file names "download_external_libraries.pl" and
"external_libs.lst" because what is actually downloaded is more than
just libraries. It already downloads such things a fonts, AFM files and
some license texts.
We have more than enough cases in our code base where code evolution
caused a mismatch of names to reality. New functionality that was
created from scratch should not start with having a misleading name.
It is a rewrite in Perl with the following improvements:
[lots of wonderful benefits snipped]
The download script is main/solenv/bin/download_external_libraries.pl.
How about naming that download_external_deps.pl or *_dependencies.pl?
The data file has a new format and I took the opportunity to rename it
to main/external_libs.lst. [...]
How about naming that download_external_deps.lst or *_dependencies.lst?
I hope this helps in our quest to solve the category-B questions.
It sure does. Thanks again!
Herbert
