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Re: [RFA] New script copyright.py
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:37:37 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFA] New script copyright.py
- References: <1294206952-28080-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 09:55:52 +0400
>
> We currently have one script called copyright.sh which uses
> the "copyright" script in emacs. The issue is that script
> does not handle a certain number of files, and expects us
> to update them by hand. Unfortunately, that list is fairly long:
>
> byhand="
> *.s
> *.f
> *.f90
> *.igen
> *.ac
> *.texi
> *.texinfo
> *.tex
> *.defs
> *.1
> "
>
> The purpose of this new script is, first, to automate the update
> of these unhandled files. All of them could be handled automatically,
> except one (sim/ppc/psim.texinfo). I have also included the handling
> of all Ada files (*.ads, *.adb, and *.gpr) in this script, since
> the emacs script seemed to do fail at line wrapping with at least
> the .gpr file.
(Wearing my Emacs maintenance hat.) It would be good to report these
problems to the Emacs bug tracker ("M-x report-emacs-bug RET"),
including all the details, like error messages etc. At least some of
them should be fixable.
TIA