Re: [PATCH] maint: add a script to list libunistring modules

[Daiki Ueno]

Daiki Ueno <address@hidden> writes:

>>         The modules are listed by a script that does:
>>         - for each file listed by: git show --oneline --name-only 705f4efc
>>           - deduce the containing modules, based on "Files:"
>>         - deduce the modules which depend on the containing modules, based
>>           on "Depends-on:"
>>
>> It's tempting to automate those steps.  Is it okay to add some scripts
>> for that to Gnulib?
>
> So here it is.  As noted in the comment, it's often too slow.

Actually, it would be trivial if gnulib-tool had support for:

- listing reverse dependencies: --extract-reverse-dependencies module
- listing containing module, like rpm -qf: --extract-containing-modules file
- recursive query for --extract-dependencies, etc: --recursive

Perhaps these features might be generally useful, but I doubt that they
are acceptable since gnulib-tool seems already too complex to
accommodate such new options (might be a good addition to
python-gnulib).

Thoughts?

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno