[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] doc: add script to compute texi files dependencies

Timothy Gu timothygu99 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 6 01:03:33 CET 2013


On Dec 5, 2013 3:50 PM, "Stefano Sabatini" <stefasab at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On date Thursday 2013-12-05 15:39:12 -0800, Timothy Gu encoded:
> > On Dec 5, 2013 10:09 AM, "Stefano Sabatini" <stefasab at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > > > > +#! /usr/bin/perl
> >
> > /usr/bin/env perl?
>
> changed locally
>
> > > >
> > > > Copyright?
> > >
> > > No (we have other scripts missing copyright, and I guess we can skip
> > > it for this trivial and
> >
> > > mostly non-reusable ad-hoc script).
> >
>
> > Unreusable? Other projects that uses Texinfo can use this too. But this
is
> > just a minor remark so ignore it if you don't like it.
>
> It's silly I know, but I mostly just want to avoid to bloat the script
> and double its nominal line-count and I don't think such a trivial
> logic "deserves" copyright.

It doesn't look trivial to me :)

Also how about adding a help comment on how to use the script (something
like:

# This script will print the dependency of the Texinfo file to stdout.

# texidep.pl <src-path> <input.texi> <output.ext>
)

[...]

Timothy


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