Hello Stefano, * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 01:58:08PM CEST: > This patch substitutes (almost) all the sed/grep maintainer syntax checks > in `Makefile.am' with a new perl script `maintcheck.pl'.
Why? Honest question. perl regex isn't necessarily more readable than sed, in fact I find some of the constructs you introduced decidedly less readable. Also, testing in the presence of VPATH builds is a requirement. I think a reorganization of maint checks, *if at all* done, should be done unified to/across gnulib and coreutils' infrastructure, rather than yet another reimplementation. I don't really see the need though, the existing tests are not broken, are they? Thanks, Ralf