Re: replacing munge-texi with Perl

[Søren Hauberg]

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