Replace autogen.sh by autogen.py in l10n-kde4

David Faure faure at kde.org
Thu Apr 24 17:46:04 BST 2008


On Tuesday 22 April 2008, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I already wrote to kde-18n-doc and they told me they will maybe consider 
> using a python rather than a shell script when k-c-d agrees.
> 
> The problem is the we can't use autogen.sh (it creates the 
> CMakeLists.txt) on windows - it's very slow and requires msys or cygwin. 
> Because of this I created a small python script available here: 
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/emerge/portage/kde/l10n-kde4/autogen.py
> If you don't like it it's ok - the only thing is that we (kde-windows) 
> have to maintain a separate script and once autogen.sh changes we have 
> to adopt autogen.py

I see no reason to keep two versions of the same scripts. Kill the shell one,
if your python replacement does exactly the same thing in a more portable way.

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