On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Jesse Adkins <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> This was added in 2005 as part of a big-ish commit. Since then, it hasn't >>> been updated. >>> >>> This script isn't used by anything else in modular, and no real reason was >>> given for it in >>> the commit (the commit only mentions it being added). >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Jesse Adkins <[email protected]> >> >> Clearly it's for adding '#include <config.h>' to packages to support >> autoheader. It seems like a useful script to throw away even if it's >> unlikely to be used much. In fact, I really wish I'd known this >> existed when I was autotooling XTS. I ended up writing my own script >> with sed to do the same thing. > > There's still a large body of code out there (like much of the old > ftp.x.org/contrib) written to use imake that may someday want to > convert to autotools that may find such a script useful - seems like > it's harmless to leave it there for them, though perhaps more useful > if we had a "imake -> autotools" conversion guide that pointed it out.
It might be useful to organize the scripts in modular more. In my view, there are 3 types: packaging - converting a component to the modular, autotooled world release - preparing a component or katamari for release build - building one or all the components I'd rather see the scripts get moved to subdirectories than deleted. -- Dan _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
