[Isocops] me_files.txt

Geoffrey B. Crew gbc at space.mit.edu
Fri Jun 11 11:18:19 EDT 2010


This is a bit of a detail:  but the help facility requires a file
(isoc/src/doc/help/me_files.txt) with one-liner descriptions of
every executable installed in the bin/ directory.  I had left the
Makefile in the help area with a "check" target to automatically
append new executables with a "FIXME" line to the file.

Unfortunately, *every* tree was doing this, and so fixing the FIXMEs
in a way that avoids SVN merge conflicts was a bit problematic.  I've
just changed the Makefile so that only the distinguished "local" tree
(at present the gbc tree) will do the automatic thing and therefore
that's the easiest file to fix and commit.

So: when random developers add new things (like oxymode.pl) it will
turn up in the nightly build mail as

  M isoc/src/doc/help/me_files.txt

which Mark should notice and remind Ken should fix, probably after
some general mail to isocdev with, e.g.:

  who the fuck is installing oxymode.pl from where?

&c.  In theory, any developer should be able to fix the FIXME lines
(or add them when they create something to be installed) without a
confict.  (I.e. the automatic rebuild of the file only happens when
extra executables are found or ones with help disappear.)

-- 

		Geoff (gbc at space.mit.edu)


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