Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git

From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: Jun 7, 2006, 15:21 UTC
Message-ID: <1149693688.3415.6.camel@dv>
In-Reply-To: <df0b33100606070202w581ff581i435056f0fbc197f8@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 11:02 +0200, Igor Bukanov wrote:

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> On 6/2/06, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/2/06, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:
> > > Dependency on Cygwin, Perl and Python is too much.  Windows is becoming
> > > a legacy system in some circles, and it may run on legacy hardware.  Yet
> > > it's irreplaceable as a testing platform for many projects.
> >
> > 80% of Mozilla commiters are running Windows. Some are OS bilingual
> > but many are not.
> 
> Mozilla build system on Windows requires Cygwin and there are 198 Perl
> files in Firefox tree. So it is only Python that can be problematic.

Then maybe the existing 3 python files in git (I'm not counting compat/subprocess.py) could be converted to Perl? Perl would be great as the "common denominator" for interpreted languages.

Search for "python to perl" translator lead me to Perthon: http://perthon.sourceforge.net/

But Perthon needs work.  My attempt to run it on git-p4import.py failed:

$ perl -I `pwd`/lib perthon.pl git-p4import.py Can't coerce array into hash at lib/Perthon/PerthonImpl.pm line 15420.

It may be a fun project for somebody who wants to learn Perl and Python.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin