This is the mail archive of the libc-alpha@sourceware.org mailing list for the glibc project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: [PATCH] conform/conformtest.pl: Escape literal braces in regular expressions



On 18/07/2018 14:39, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 07/18/2018 12:38 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
>> On Fri, 6 Jul 2018, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>>
>>> You should feel free to check something like this in without review,
>>> particularly if it fixes a direct warning. If someone wants to rewrite
>>
>> Agreed.
>>
>>> this in python, or in a different way in perl, then they can always
>>> follow up with another patch.
>>
>> I support the idea of moving the various functionality using perl to 
>> python (this is not volunteering to rewrite it all, though if we had 
>> consensus for such a change I might well end up doing it for the math/ and 
>> conform/ pieces).
> 
> Python is turning out to be easier to maintain than perl.
> 
> We see more volunteers with python experience than perl.
> 
> I am strongly in favour of migrating perl or awk scripts to python and shell.
> 

+1


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]