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Re: replacing munge-texi with Perl
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Søren Hauberg |
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Re: replacing munge-texi with Perl |
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Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:29:23 +0100 |
tor, 10 02 2011 kl. 13:23 -0800, skrev Rik:
> Michael D Godfrey wrote:
> > On 12/16/2009 04:05 PM, Rik wrote:
> >> I think we should be open-minded about how munge-texi is implemented.
> >> It is currently written in C++, but I find doing any text processing in
> >> C/C++ to be awkward. We already require Perl for building, so if you
> >> think it might be easier to provide the functionality in another
> >> language then consider that.
> >>
> >>
> > I agree with this. My quick inspection of munge-texi.cc finds that it just
> > passes the @example ... @end example code through. And, using C++
> > for more text manipulation is not, I think, a very good idea. So, a rewrite
> > of munge-texi.cc into Perl may be a good start. Or, should Octave be
> > considered?
> >
> > Michael
> >
> This exchange was from 2009, but I thought I would go ahead and implement
> it now that 3.4.0 is out. Any objections?
Just curious but why not rewriting it into Octave code?
Søren