Re: buildenv.pl/buildenv.bat

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:31:30AM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> 
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >>My recollection is that I changed the minimum amount necessary, because 
> >>I was expecting us to go into beta at anmy moment (silly me). That might 
> >>be why we still have both. There was an expectation that some cleanup 
> >>might be required during 8.4 development. I know I left other .bat files 
> >>as wrappers for the perl scripts, but that's obviously not appropriate 
> >>here. I'll see if I can adjust builddoc.bat so we can get rid of 
> >>buildenv.bat.
> >>
> >>As for documentation, you're probably right, I could easily have missed 
> >>it. I'll look into it.
> >>    
> >
> >Great. Let me know if you need me to poke at anything.
> >
> >
> >  
> 
> OK, I'm thinking that the best way might be to do away with buildenv.bat 
> altogether and replace the remaining references to it in .bat files with 
> something like this fragment:
> 
> if not exist src\tools\msvc\buildenv.pl goto nobuildenv
> perl -e "require 'src/tools/msvc/buildenv.pl'; while(($k,$v) = each 
> %ENV) { print qq[\@SET $k=$v\n]; }" > tmp.bat
> call tmp.bat
> del tmp.bat
> :nobuildenv
> 
> and adjust the docs accordingly.
> 
> Thoughts?

Urgh.

I thought you specifically changed the earlier scripts to *avoid* having
them create a temporary file and then execute it. Which I agreed with :-)

I think I'd prefer we just get rid of the .bat's completely then. 

I wonder if we are daring enough to do it so late in the cycle, though..

//Magnus