Re: [PATCH] pycocci: sync pycocci with Coccinelle upstream

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 13:43 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 13:01 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >> pycocci is now part of Coccinelle upstream. Coccinelle has a plan
> >> to actually extend multithreaded support to enable us to not have
> >> to script this out. Until then pyccoci is used and I'll sync both
> >> solutions up as there is a bit of latency between a coccinelle release
> >> and what we may need from pycocci.
> >
> > If it's upstream, do they ship it? If so it wouldn't be needed that we
> > have a copy, it seems?
> 
> Indeed, Coccinelle 1.0 has pycocci except for this last patch I just
> mentioned. I think it is important enough for our sake that the errors
> are reported well, I think its fair to drop this in backports once
> Coccinelle 1.1 is released and we can reasonably expect users to have
> it installed.

Not sure I see the point in applying it now - clearly we haven't had any
issues here that required this change, so why bother?

johannes