Hi Herbert,

On 05.06.2012 07:25, Herbert Duerr wrote:
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?

Good idea.  I will rename

    download_external_libraries.pl to download_external_dependencies.pl

and

    external_libs.lst to external_deps.lst

when I make the new download mechanism the default in a few days.

-Andre


I hope this helps in our quest to solve the category-B questions.

It sure does. Thanks again!

Herbert

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