[perl #41912] [CAGE] survey tools/ dir for unused, old, or broken code, and remove or fix as necessary

chromatic chromatic at wgz.org
Tue Dec 30 03:07:21 UTC 2008


On Monday 29 December 2008 18:41:56 James Keenan via RT wrote:

> Well, I have to admit I don't know what a fakecutable would be.  In any
> event, my main concern right now is to see if someone deems this program
> valuable enough to take it over and get it working.  Otherwise, per
> Jerry's original post in this ticket, it should be deleted.

A fakecutable is perl6 or pbc_to_exe.  It's a C program which contains PBC 
inside, then launches it when you run it.

parrot-config used to be a PIR program, but now it's a compiled C program.

We can delete tools/dev/src-t.sh, though; I don't know if anyone's used it in 
years.

-- c


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