[libvirt] [PATCH v4 00/26] scripts: convert most perl scripts to python

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 09:22:29AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 08:55 +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 02:01:37PM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 12:37:15 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> > > > Note that the check-spacing.py script is significantly
> > > > slower in Python than in Perl. After researching this
> > > > it appears there is nothing that can be done. The Perl
> > > > regex engine is simply much better optimized than the
> > > > Python one.  As previously discussed we need to loook
> > > > at uncrustify or clang-format or some other tool to
> > > > validate whitespace formatting. This is ongoing. We
> > > > can either accept the slow down in the short term or
> > > > keep the Perl version in the short term.
> > > 
> > > I vote for keeping the perl version then. I don't see much value in
> > > rewriting it into a much slower form just to drop it soon after.
> > 
> > I second ^this opinion.
> 
> Same, especially if it puts more pressure on us finally adopting
> something like clang-format.

Since all the patches in this series are essentially independant, I'm
not going to repost this huge series just to drop that one patch.
Just consider it dropped locally.

Regards,
Daniel
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