re: makesyscalls

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

i'm not very interested in a solution that doesn't use tools
available to the build.  you've not shown that there is
sufficient pain here to force an external solution.  i'm not
sure i buy your claims about awk and size of program.  IME,
it just requires that one is strict to rules.

if you want to use python for creating files in the tree
for _our_ things, then i think you have to propose adding
python to src/tools.  [*]

why aren't you willing to discuss a lua version?  it has
most of the features you complained awk is missing, and would
make it relatively easy to unit-test the components easily.


.mrg.


[*] i support this generally, and as a non-public visible
library that our gdb can use as well.  i do not think we
should add it to /usr/bin (but i might be convinceable that
it can be installed in a non-standard location, using non-
standard paths for libararies, as long as it does not have
anything to do with or interfere with pkgsrc or other ways
of using python.)