On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 02:34:26PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
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> On Sep 13, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > We have the following tools in our source tree without appropriate
> > license headers,
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> There's also tools/make-dissector-reg.py, which was written by Gilbert Ramirez:
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> r2873 | gram | 2001-01-10 23:21:35 -0800 (Wed, 10 Jan 2001) | 8 lines
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> Add a python script which has the same functionality as the shell
> script 'make-reg-dotc'. It is used only in the Win32 build because the
> make-reg-dotc shell script is *so* sloooooooooow on Win32, due to the
> multiple processes (grep, grep, sed) launched multiple times for each
> source file. By putting all the text-mangling logic into a single Python
> script, only one process is launched, and the source files are read
> only once. It's *a lot* faster... seconds instead of minutes.
If I understand things for windows builds correctly, we require python for
windows builds as well nowadays. If that's correct we should get rid of the
shell script.
Ciao
Jörg
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