A clarification: I'm not planning to do anything with the scripts in the "THIRD-PARTY" section, unless somebody tells me "foo.pl is not third-party and can be safely removed".
Nick On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Nicholas Nethercote <n.netherc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1089446 I'm removing > some old, unused Perl scripts from the tree. I'm giving notice here > just in case any of the scripts I'm planning to remove are still being > used, and also to find out if more scripts can be removed. > > My working list and notes are below. Everything in the "REMOVING" > section is on track to be removed. Assistance on the "UNSURE" section > would be helpful. > > Thank you. > > Nick > > > REMOVING > -------- > ./config/make-atom-strings.pl > - patch to remove is r=bz > > ./gfx/tests/process-textruns.pl > - patch to remove is r=roc > > ./build/unix/uniq.pl > - patch to replace it with uniq.py is r=gps > > ./config/module2dir.pl > - not touched meaningfully since 2003; lots of touches before that > - glandium says it has been broken since 2008, and hence unused > - patch to remove it is r?glandium > > ./netwerk/test/neckoTiming.pl > - landed in 2001, hasn't been touched since > - patch to remove is r?mcmanus > > ./xpcom/tools/analyze-xpcom-log.pl > - unchanged since 2001, unmentioned in the repo > - patch to remove is r?froydnj > > ./build/unix/abs2rel.pl > - landed in April 2002, no non-trivial changes since then > - no other references in the repo > - patch to remove is r?mshal (in bug 1089832) > > UNSURE > ------ > ./layout/tools/reftest/clean-reftest-output.pl > ./layout/tools/reftest/reftest-to-html.pl > - mentioned in layout/tools/reftest/README.txt > - dbaron says probably not useful > > ./dom/xslt/tests/buster/helper/generate-rdf.pl > - no other references in the repo > - bz thinks it's unused; peterv might know better > > ./layout/mathml/updateOperatorDictionary.pl > - appears to be in fairly recent use > > ./layout/reftests/fonts/generate-bitpattern-font.pl > - mentioned by bidiMirroring.svg > > ./xpcom/reflect/xptcall/genstubs.pl > - has moderately recent use > - mentioned in porting.html > > ./gfx/thebes/genLanguageTagList.pl > - seems like it might still be useful > - used to generate gfxLanguageTagList.{cpp,h} > > ./security/manager/ssl/tests/unit/test_certificate_usages/generate.pl > - mentioned in comments in > security/manager/ssl/tests/unit/test_certificate_usages.js > > DEFINITELY USEFUL > ----------------- > ./toolkit/locales/compare-locales.pl > - Callek says it's still used for some SeaMonkey extensions > > ./tools/memory/bloattable.pl > - still works with bloat logs from XPCOM_MEM_BLOAT_LOG > > ./tools/rb/find-comptr-leakers.pl > ./tools/rb/find-leakers.pl > ./tools/rb/filter-log.pl > ./tools/rb/make-tree.pl > ./tools/rb/bloatdiff.pl > - all(?) still work with refcnt tracing > > ./tools/trace-malloc/blame.pl > ./tools/trace-malloc/diffbloatdump.pl > ./tools/trace-malloc/merge.pl > ./tools/trace-malloc/histogram.pl > ./tools/trace-malloc/leak-soup.pl > ./tools/trace-malloc/uncategorized.pl > - all(?) still work with trace-malloc logs > > ./tools/update-packaging/unwrap_full_update.pl > - used in tools/update-packaging/Makefile.in > > ./tools/leak-gauge/leak-gauge.pl > - still works > > ./config/milestone.pl > - used in configure.in and other places > > ./config/version_win.pl > - used in config/version.mk > > ./docshell/test/chrome/gen_template.pl > ./testing/mochitest/gen_template.pl > - useful when creating new tests > > ./testing/web-platform/tests/tools/pywebsocket/src/test/testdata/hello.pl > - used in a test > > ./build/win32/dumpenv4python.pl > - used in build/autoconf/hooks.m4 > > THIRD-PARTY > ----------- > ./gfx/cairo/libpixman/src/make-combine.pl > > ./intl/lwbrk/tools/anzx4051.pl > ./intl/uconv/tools/genimpldefine.pl > ./intl/uconv/tools/jamap.pl > ./intl/uconv/tools/parse-mozilla-encoding-table.pl > ./intl/uconv/tools/gen-big5hkscs-2001-mozilla.pl > ./intl/uconv/tools/cp936tocdx.pl > ./intl/uconv/tools/jis0212tojdx.pl > ./intl/uconv/tools/unihan2cns.pl > ./intl/uconv/tools/mkjpconv.pl > ./intl/uconv/tools/adobe.pl > ./intl/uconv/tools/gengb18030tables.pl > ./intl/uconv/tests/stressgb.pl > ./intl/chardet/tools/charfreqtostat.pl > ./intl/chardet/tools/geniso2022cn.pl > ./intl/chardet/tools/genhz.pl > ./intl/chardet/tools/genbig5.pl > ./intl/chardet/tools/charfreq.pl > ./intl/chardet/tools/gengb18030.pl > ./intl/chardet/tools/geniso2022jp.pl > ./intl/chardet/tools/geneuctw.pl > ./intl/chardet/tools/gensjis.pl > ./intl/chardet/tools/geneuckr.pl > ./intl/chardet/tools/geneucjp.pl > ./intl/chardet/tools/gencyrillic.pl > ./intl/chardet/tools/gencp1252.pl > ./intl/chardet/tools/gengb2312.pl > ./intl/chardet/tools/genutf8.pl > ./intl/chardet/tools/geniso2022kr.pl > ./intl/unicharutil/tools/genSpecialCasingData.pl > ./intl/unicharutil/tools/gentransliterate.pl > ./intl/unicharutil/tools/genUnicodePropertyData.pl > ./intl/unicharutil/tests/genNormalizationData.pl > ./intl/icu/source/common/rbbicst.pl > ./intl/icu/source/tools/genren/genren.pl > ./intl/icu/source/tools/memcheck/ICUMemCheck.pl > ./intl/icu/source/tools/gensprep/filterRFC3454.pl > ./intl/icu/source/i18n/regexcst.pl > > ./nsprpub/pr/src/misc/compile-et.pl > ./nsprpub/pr/tests/runtests.pl > ./nsprpub/config/make-system-wrappers.pl > ./nsprpub/config/nfspwd.pl > ./nsprpub/admin/explode.pl > > ./media/libopus/celt/arm/arm2gnu.pl > ./media/libvpx/build/make/ads2gas.pl > ./media/libtheora/lib/arm/arm2gnu.pl > > ./extensions/spellcheck/locales/en-US/hunspell/dictionary-sources/dupe-dictionary.pl > > ./modules/freetype2/src/tools/afblue.pl > > ./security/nss/coreconf/cpdist.pl > ./security/nss/coreconf/jniregen.pl > ./security/nss/coreconf/outofdate.pl > ./security/nss/coreconf/release.pl > ./security/nss/coreconf/version.pl > ./security/nss/coreconf/import.pl > ./security/nss/coreconf/coreconf.pl > ./security/nss/lib/freebl/mpi/utils/ptab.pl > ./security/nss/lib/freebl/mpi/types.pl > ./security/nss/cmd/signver/examples/1/signedForm.pl > ./security/nss/cmd/signver/examples/1/form.pl _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
