Re: Tool Ownership and Licensing

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de>]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 02:34:26PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Sep 13, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > We have the following tools in our source tree without appropriate
> > license headers,
>
> There's also tools/make-dissector-reg.py, which was written by Gilbert Ramirez:
>
>       r2873 | gram | 2001-01-10 23:21:35 -0800 (Wed, 10 Jan 2001) | 8 lines
>
>       Add a python script which has the same functionality as the shell
>       script 'make-reg-dotc'. It is used only in the Win32 build because the
>       make-reg-dotc shell script is *so* sloooooooooow on Win32, due to the
>       multiple processes (grep, grep, sed) launched multiple times for each
>       source file. By putting all the text-mangling logic into a single Python
>       script, only one process is launched, and the source files are read
>       only once. It's *a lot* faster... seconds instead of minutes.

If I understand things for windows builds correctly, we require python for
windows builds as well nowadays. If that's correct we should get rid of the
shell script.

Ciao
      Jörg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer () loplof de>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
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