Re: [RFC] Refactoring maintainer checks (use perl, add whitelisting)

2010-07-26 Thread Stefano Lattarini
At Monday 26 July 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Stefano, Hi Ralf. How did the GHM go? > * 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 > > `maintche

Re: [RFC] Refactoring maintainer checks (use perl, add whitelisting)

2010-07-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
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

[RFC] Refactoring maintainer checks (use perl, add whitelisting)

2010-07-26 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello automakers. This patch substitutes (almost) all the sed/grep maintainer syntax checks in `Makefile.am' with a new perl script `maintcheck.pl'. Currently, this is a monolithic script, but it allows the selection of a subset of checks to be run (i.e. it doesn't force all tests to be run). Al