Re: a saner bootstrap script

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Bruno,

On 21 Oct 2011, at 06:58, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>> On the other hand, if by "incremental" you really mean chunking my rewrite 
>> into
>> patches that add a function here and there, and disable bits of the old 
>> script
>> when they are no longer called, then I could be persuaded to do that.
> 
> That would be a way to proceed. But it would take a large amount of your
> time, just to find the correspondences between the old and the new code.
> A cheaper way of getting "incremental" reviews could be that, every 2 days,
> you post a code snippet of 20-100 lines, with a couple of intro blurb
> (unless the comments already say everything). This way, you will likely
> catch the attention of more eyes.

That's a great idea!

If things are still stalled in another week or so, I'll start doing just that.
Quickly checking bootstrap has 3097 newlines and 101 shell functions in 1642 
SLOC,
so the process will take about a month if I keep to 100 lines or less of 
commented
code every 2 days.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)