[Xastir-dev] scripts/get-NWSdata

[Curt Mills]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 1:52 PM Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:22:52PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> >
> > - Could we write the path into scripts during the build?
>
> Yes.  Exactly the same way that it's written into values.pl:  by making
> a ".in" template for the script, an having the actual script be created
> from the template by configure.
>
> It is not much more trouble to do that than to jump through other, possibly
> non-portable kludges.
>

Cool. Maybe someone could do that? (BTW: Not me!)


Do xastir-fixcfg.sh and xastir-migrate still have value in 2019?  Both
> scripts
> exist *solely* to fix up installs of Xastir from prior to the Great Install
> Reorg of 2003?   Do we really need to keep worrying about maintaining
> a script to help someone with a 16-year old obsolete install upgrade to
> the current build without simply starting from scratch?
>

No. I think it's time to get rid of them.

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