Re: Removing unused Perl scripts from the tree

2014-10-27 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Karl Tomlinson wrote: > >> ./layout/mathml/updateOperatorDictionary.pl >> - appears to be in fairly recent use > > This was used to generate an in-tree file from an external spec. > It is reasonably likely that there will be future changes to the > spec, in which c

Re: Removing unused Perl scripts from the tree

2014-10-27 Thread Karl Tomlinson
Nicholas Nethercote writes: > UNSURE > -- > ./layout/mathml/updateOperatorDictionary.pl > - appears to be in fairly recent use This was used to generate an in-tree file from an external spec. It is reasonably likely that there will be future changes to the spec, in which case the script will

Re: Removing unused Perl scripts from the tree

2014-10-27 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
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 wrote: > Hi, > > In https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?

Re: Removing unused Perl scripts from the tree

2014-10-27 Thread Ralph Giles
On 2014-10-27 3:18 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > ./media/libopus/celt/arm/arm2gnu.pl > ./media/libvpx/build/make/ads2gas.pl > ./media/libtheora/lib/arm/arm2gnu.pl These come from upstream, and are used to convert syntax of assembler source files so they can work with various toolchains. Upstre

Re: Removing unused Perl scripts from the tree

2014-10-27 Thread L. David Baron
On Monday 2014-10-27 15:18 -0700, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > ./layout/reftests/fonts/generate-bitpattern-font.pl > - mentioned by bidiMirroring.svg I believe this is code that was used to generate a file checked in to the tree (BitPattern.woff, in the same directory, although there was presumabl

Re: Removing unused Perl scripts from the tree

2014-10-27 Thread David Keeler
Thanks for doing this! On 10/27/2014 03:18 PM, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > ./security/manager/ssl/tests/unit/test_certificate_usages/generate.pl > - mentioned in comments in > security/manager/ssl/tests/unit/test_certificate_usages.js We probably still need this until bug 969985[0] is fixed (in

Removing unused Perl scripts from the tree

2014-10-27 Thread Nicholas Nethercote
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