Re: Auto extraction of names from the LSB spec sources.
Stuart Anderson wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Albert den Haan wrote:
>
> > How hard would it be to have the dynamically built files always contain a
> > few comments that would describe their provenance so that random browsers
> > like myself would have a clue that they were generated from a database and
> > how?
>
> For new files that are about to be designed, that would be easy. For some of
> the existing file, the format may be sensitive to extra comments like that
> (ie it doesn't need to show up in the tables in the document), but anywhere
> we could add it without being intrusive would probably be good.
>
> Stuart
I was thinking of adding SGML comments to the sgml files. They are
unobtrusive except to the people editing the file.
Something like:
RCS file: /cvsroot/lsb/spec/mkcmdtable,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -w -r1.1 mkcmdtable
--- spec/mkcmdtable 2001/02/14 04:40:37 1.1
+++ spec/mkcmdtable 2001/04/19 20:11:47
@@ -135,7 +135,14 @@
###############################################################################
#
lsbOpenDB;
+printf("-- Start of text generated from database --\n");
+printf("-- generated from the LSB specification database --\n");
+printf("-- by \$Header:\$ --\n");
+my $now_string = localtime;
+printf("-- at %s --\n", $now_string );
lsbCommands;
+printf("-- End of text generated from database --\n");
+printf("-- by \$Header:\$ --\n");
lsbCloseDB;
exit;
--
Albert den Haan, Lead Developer @ Linux Port Team . Corel Corporation
albertd@corel.com (613) 728-0826 x 5318
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