[libvirt] [PATCH v2 00/24] scripts: convert most perl scripts to python

This series is an effort to reduce the number of different languages we use by eliminating most use of perl in favour of python. This aligns with fact that the likely future build system we'll use (meson) is written in python, and that python is much more commonly used/understood by developers these days than perl. With this applied we use perl in a handful of places only: - src/rpc/gendispatch.pl - this is a horrendously large script and very hard to understand/follow. A straight syntax conversion to Python would still leave a hgue and hard to understand/follow script. It really needs a clean room rewrite from scratch, with better structure. - src/rpc/genprotocol.pl - fairly easy to convert, but might be obsolete depending on approach for rewriting gendispatch.pl, so ignored for now - tests/oomtrace.pl - will be purge by the patches that drop OOM handling anyway - tools/wireshark/util/genxdrstub.pl - a very large script, which I haven't got the courage to tackle yet. - cfg.mk/maint.mk - many syntax rules involve regexes which are fed to perl. Decision on what to do with syntax-check rules punted to another time. - build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog - build-aux/useless-if-before-free - Both pulled in from gnulib. Could be rewritten quite easily if desired, but given that we aren't maintainers of them right now, they're ignored as they don't really impact our developers. In v2: - Pulled in patch to hacking file - Converted many more scripts - Forced UTF-8 character set to avoid ascii codec on py3 < 3.7 Daniel P. Berrangé (24): docs: document that C & Python are the preferred languages cfg.mk: fix comment detection for python semicolon check build: force a UTF-8 locale for python build-aux: rewrite augest test generator in Python build-aux: rewrite po file minimizer in Python build-aux: rewrite duplicate header checker in Python build-aux: rewrite whitespace checker in Python build-aux: rewrite mock inline checker in Python build-aux: rewrite header ifdef checker in Python src: rewrite ACL permissions checker in Python src: rewrite symfile sorting checker in Python src: rewrite symfile library checker in Python src: rewrite systemtap probe generator in Python src: rewrite systemtap function generator in Python src: rewrite driver name checker in Python src: rewrite driver impl checker in Python src: rewrite ACL rule checker in Python src: rewrite polkit ACL generator in Python src: rewrite remote protocol checker in Python tests: rewrite test argv line wrapper in Python tests: rewrite qemu capability grouper in Python tests: rewrite file access checker in Python docs: rewrite hvsupport.html page generator in python docs: rewrite polkit docs generator in Python Makefile.am | 14 +- build-aux/augeas-gentest.pl | 60 ---- build-aux/augeas-gentest.py | 72 ++++ build-aux/check-spacing.pl | 198 ---------- build-aux/check-spacing.py | 204 +++++++++++ build-aux/header-ifdef.pl | 182 ---------- build-aux/header-ifdef.py | 206 +++++++++++ build-aux/minimize-po.pl | 37 -- build-aux/minimize-po.py | 60 ++++ build-aux/mock-noinline.pl | 75 ---- build-aux/mock-noinline.py | 88 +++++ build-aux/prohibit-duplicate-header.pl | 26 -- build-aux/prohibit-duplicate-header.py | 54 +++ cfg.mk | 32 +- configure.ac | 8 + docs/Makefile.am | 17 +- docs/genaclperms.pl | 125 ------- docs/genaclperms.py | 122 +++++++ docs/hacking.html.in | 30 ++ docs/hvsupport.pl | 458 ----------------------- docs/hvsupport.py | 479 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ po/Makefile.am | 2 +- src/Makefile.am | 156 +++----- src/access/Makefile.inc.am | 6 +- src/access/genpolkit.pl | 119 ------ src/access/genpolkit.py | 119 ++++++ src/bhyve/Makefile.inc.am | 4 +- src/check-aclperms.pl | 73 ---- src/check-aclperms.py | 77 ++++ src/check-aclrules.pl | 252 ------------- src/check-aclrules.py | 244 +++++++++++++ src/check-driverimpls.pl | 80 ----- src/check-driverimpls.py | 96 +++++ src/check-drivername.pl | 83 ----- src/check-drivername.py | 112 ++++++ src/check-remote-protocol.py | 131 +++++++ src/check-symfile.pl | 70 ---- src/check-symfile.py | 80 +++++ src/check-symsorting.pl | 106 ------ src/check-symsorting.py | 112 ++++++ src/dtrace2systemtap.pl | 130 ------- src/dtrace2systemtap.py | 140 ++++++++ src/esx/Makefile.inc.am | 2 +- src/hyperv/Makefile.inc.am | 2 +- src/interface/Makefile.inc.am | 2 +- src/libxl/Makefile.inc.am | 4 +- src/locking/Makefile.inc.am | 6 +- src/logging/Makefile.inc.am | 2 +- src/lxc/Makefile.inc.am | 4 +- src/network/Makefile.inc.am | 2 +- src/node_device/Makefile.inc.am | 2 +- src/nwfilter/Makefile.inc.am | 2 +- src/qemu/Makefile.inc.am | 4 +- src/remote/Makefile.inc.am | 4 +- src/rpc/Makefile.inc.am | 2 +- src/rpc/gensystemtap.pl | 193 ---------- src/rpc/gensystemtap.py | 174 +++++++++ src/secret/Makefile.inc.am | 2 +- src/storage/Makefile.inc.am | 2 +- src/util/Makefile.inc.am | 8 +- src/vbox/Makefile.inc.am | 2 +- src/vz/Makefile.inc.am | 2 +- tests/Makefile.am | 4 +- tests/check-file-access.pl | 126 ------- tests/check-file-access.py | 121 +++++++ tests/file_access_whitelist.txt | 2 +- tests/group-qemu-caps.pl | 124 ------- tests/group-qemu-caps.py | 115 ++++++ tests/test-wrap-argv.pl | 174 --------- tests/test-wrap-argv.py | 162 +++++++++ tests/testutils.c | 16 +- 71 files changed, 3132 insertions(+), 2872 deletions(-) delete mode 100755 build-aux/augeas-gentest.pl create mode 100755 build-aux/augeas-gentest.py delete mode 100755 build-aux/check-spacing.pl create mode 100755 build-aux/check-spacing.py delete mode 100644 build-aux/header-ifdef.pl create mode 100644 build-aux/header-ifdef.py delete mode 100755 build-aux/minimize-po.pl create mode 100755 build-aux/minimize-po.py delete mode 100644 build-aux/mock-noinline.pl create mode 100644 build-aux/mock-noinline.py delete mode 100644 build-aux/prohibit-duplicate-header.pl create mode 100644 build-aux/prohibit-duplicate-header.py delete mode 100755 docs/genaclperms.pl create mode 100755 docs/genaclperms.py delete mode 100755 docs/hvsupport.pl create mode 100755 docs/hvsupport.py delete mode 100755 src/access/genpolkit.pl create mode 100755 src/access/genpolkit.py delete mode 100755 src/check-aclperms.pl create mode 100755 src/check-aclperms.py delete mode 100755 src/check-aclrules.pl create mode 100755 src/check-aclrules.py delete mode 100755 src/check-driverimpls.pl create mode 100755 src/check-driverimpls.py delete mode 100755 src/check-drivername.pl create mode 100644 src/check-drivername.py create mode 100644 src/check-remote-protocol.py delete mode 100755 src/check-symfile.pl create mode 100755 src/check-symfile.py delete mode 100755 src/check-symsorting.pl create mode 100755 src/check-symsorting.py delete mode 100755 src/dtrace2systemtap.pl create mode 100755 src/dtrace2systemtap.py delete mode 100755 src/rpc/gensystemtap.pl create mode 100755 src/rpc/gensystemtap.py delete mode 100755 tests/check-file-access.pl create mode 100755 tests/check-file-access.py delete mode 100755 tests/group-qemu-caps.pl create mode 100755 tests/group-qemu-caps.py delete mode 100755 tests/test-wrap-argv.pl create mode 100755 tests/test-wrap-argv.py -- 2.21.0