Re: [DISCUSS] backport.pl or backport.py

2024-11-20 Thread Nathan Hartman
One more quick thought... On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 12:16 PM Daniel Sahlberg < daniel.l.sahlb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Den ons 20 nov. 2024 kl 14:50 skrev Daniel Shahaf >: > >> Daniel Sahlberg wrote on Mon, 18 Nov 2024 08:52 +00:00: > > (snip) > B. Would more maintainers use the interactive functio

Re: [DISCUSS] backport.pl or backport.py

2024-11-20 Thread Nathan Hartman
On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 9:22 AM Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > Nathan Hartman wrote on Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00 +00:00: > > Looking through the backports stuff in tools/dist, currently it's a > > little bit messy. I wonder if things can be simplified with a minimal > > amount of effort. > > > > What if we

Re: [DISCUSS] backport.pl or backport.py

2024-11-20 Thread Daniel Sahlberg
Den ons 20 nov. 2024 kl 18:15 skrev Daniel Sahlberg < daniel.l.sahlb...@gmail.com>: > Missed [backports_tests_p[yl].py], but I'm looking now. It did't work with > Py3, but I changed a few things in r1921976. It seems a bunch of tests fail > right now, don't know if it XFails() but isn't marked pro

Re: [DISCUSS] backport.pl or backport.py

2024-11-20 Thread Daniel Sahlberg
Den ons 20 nov. 2024 kl 14:50 skrev Daniel Shahaf : > Daniel Sahlberg wrote on Mon, 18 Nov 2024 08:52 +00:00: > > backport.pl is a heavy user of "given ... when ..." and given that these > > constructs will be removed[1] when Perl 5.42 is released (pun intended), > we > > need to take some action.

Re: [DISCUSS] backport.pl or backport.py

2024-11-20 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Nathan Hartman wrote on Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00 +00:00: > Looking through the backports stuff in tools/dist, currently it's a > little bit messy. I wonder if things can be simplified with a minimal > amount of effort. > > What if we had just one script, actually called backport.py, with > subcommand

Re: [DISCUSS] backport.pl or backport.py

2024-11-20 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Daniel Sahlberg wrote on Mon, 18 Nov 2024 08:52 +00:00: > backport.pl is a heavy user of "given ... when ..." and given that these > constructs will be removed[1] when Perl 5.42 is released (pun intended), we > need to take some action. I'm guessing we have about one year before > hitting a brick w