Mailing list discussion was here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/redo-list/wLMZMxtn4wo
Several more contributors replied to me personally to say that they
don't have a problem with the change (and several consider the change
to be an improvement).
The overwhelming majority of everything in the redo repo was written by
me, so I have the right to change the license unilaterally anyway,
subject to a few rules. Since the new license actually removes
licensing/usage restrictions for everyone, this should be no problem.
This avoids a mkdocs bug where mkdocs will (rarely) see redo temp files
in its directory list, but they're gone by the time it tries to open
them, so it aborts with an exception.
I also cleaned up the installation section and added links to various
competing redo implementations.
The new README.md is basically just link to the docs on
readthedocs.org, and a link to the mailing list.
These docs need a *lot* more work, but this is enough of an improvement
that I'll commit it anyway for now.
Replaced all instances of 'python' with 'python2'
I think it's quite dumb that arch linux *ever* changed the default /usr/bin/python to python3, but oh well. This patch seems to be okay now that even debian provides a /usr/bin/python2 symlink for the last several years.
No content yet other than man pages. To make the man pages render
nicely in mkdocs, I removed the static %-headers and put the code for
them into default.md.tmp.do instead. That way, the raw input redo-*.md
files will look right in mkdocs.
On systems where 'python' refers to python3, redo
failed to launch. All invocations of python have been
made explicitly python2 invocations. All tests pass
on an Arch Linux system as of this commit.
The new format is just a list of .do files we tried, with a newline
after each one. If we successfully found a .do file, we exit 0, else
we exit 1.
As discussed on the redo-list mailing list, it's easier to parse
without the extra cruft. This makes users figure out $1 and $2
themselves, but that's not very hard, and maybe for the best.
If you use "redo --old-args", it will switch back to the old
(apenwarr-style) arguments for now, to give you time to update your .do
scripts. This option will go away eventually.
Note: minimal/do doesn't understand the --old-args option. If you're using
minimal/do in your project, keep using the old one until you update your use
of $1/$2, and then update to the new one.
apenwarr-style default.o.do:
$1 foo
$2 .o
$3 whatever.tmp
djb-style default.o.do:
$1 foo.o
$2 foo
$3 whatever.tmp
apenwarr-style foo.o.do:
$1 foo.o
$2 ""
$3 whatever.tmp
djb-style foo.o.do:
$1 foo.o
$2 foo.o (I think?)
$3 whatever.tmp
Turns out we don't need sed to process the output of gcc -MD. We can just
do this:
read DEPS <filename.deps
The 'read' command in sh actually handles backslashes correctly, so we don't
have to sed them out after all. And then a simple ${DEPS#*:} removes the
"target:" prefix from the dependency line, and we're done!
We have to go through some pretty scary gyrations to extract this
information from git, but it can be done. This works with both tarballs
generated by 'git archive', or with your local git repo.
(Requested by 'David' on the mailing list.)
These export and import, respectively, the generated man pages to/from the
git branch called 'man'. You can use it to retrieve the .1 files if you
don't have a working pandoc.
