On 2020-Feb-11, Mark Dilger wrote:
> I thought about generating the files rather than merely checking them.
> I could see arguments both ways. I wasn’t sure whether there would be
> broad support for having yet another perl script generating source
> files, nor for the maintenance burden of having to do that on all
> platforms. Having a perl script that merely sanity checks the source
> files has the advantage that there is no requirement for it to
> function on all platforms. There’s not even a requirement for it to
> be committed to the tree, since you could also argue that the
> maintenance burden of the script outweighs the burden of getting the
> source files right by hand.
No thanks.
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