Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] scripts: convert seven more Perl utilities to Python

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Breno Rodrigues Alves <breno3011alves@gmail.com> writes:

> This series converts seven more Perl utilities in scripts/ to
> Python 3, following the checkpatch.py + bootgraph.py +
> checkincludes.py + markup_oops.py + profile2linkerlist.py
> series already submitted.
>
> Each conversion is a faithful 1:1 port: same CLI, same output,
> same behavior. All use only the Python standard library.
>
> The seven scripts are:
>   - checkdeclares.pl          -> checkdeclares.py
>   - checkversion.pl           -> checkversion.py
>   - extract_xc3028.pl         -> extract_xc3028.py
>   - generate_initcall_order.pl -> generate_initcall_order.py
>   - get_maintainer.pl         -> get_maintainer.py
>   - leaking_addresses.pl      -> leaking_addresses.py
>   - recordmcount.pl           -> recordmcount.py

So an important part of describing any change is *why* you are doing it.
Why are you doing all of these conversions?  Some of these scripts have
not seen changes in decades and are likely unused; why do we want to
mess with them now?

jon