[jira] Updated: (LUCY-71) Remove Perl dependency of METAQUOTE

["Marvin Humphrey (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Marvin Humphrey updated LUCY-71:
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    Attachment: bye_bye_metaquote.diff

Ever since all instances of METAQUOTE in the Charmonizer source code were
switched over to QUOTE, running through the "metaquote" utility has been a
pass-through operation.  The attached patch, "bye_bye_metaquote.diff",
eliminates the metaquote stage, so that the Perl build process uses the
Charmonizer .c/.h files directly.  It also removes the now-obsolete
"metaquote" script and the trunk/charmonizer/bin directory.

> Remove Perl dependency of METAQUOTE
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCY-71
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCY-71
>             Project: Lucy
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Charmonizer
>            Reporter: Nathan Kurz
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: bye_bye_metaquote.diff, charm_and_harm_to_c_and_h.diff, quote.diff
>
>   Original Estimate: 168h
>  Remaining Estimate: 168h
>
> Charmonizer currently uses a Perl script 'METAQUOTE' to preprocess its '.charm' files into '.c' files and '.harm' files into '.h' files.   This works, but requires a dependency on Perl that seems inappropriate for a C language tool.
> The suggested alternatives were to use manual quoting or standard macros.  
> Manual quoting seemed error prone and cumbersome, so this patch proposes the using the 'stringify' (#expr) function within standard C preprocessor macros.

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