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

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Wed Jul 18 21:50:00 GMT 2018


* Joseph Myers:

> 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).

Can we assume that Python 3 is available?

I spent some time on writing awk code where I would have preferred
Python because I assumed that both Perl and Python were optional, and
that the actual build and most testing should not require anything but
the core build tools and awk.



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