What's the story behind pyAltFCFGMerge ?

[Caolán McNamara]

On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 12:52 +0100, Matúš Kukan wrote:
> Currently in filter/Configuration_filter.mk we use pyAltFCFGMerge or
> FCFGMerge.jar depending on whether we build with java.
> Do they produce the same result ?
> If no, how come there are no bugs or something ?
> It yes, can we remove FCFGMerge.jar and use pyAltFCFGMerge all the time ?

Long time ago we (RH) had no java because it was pre-openjdk and per
gcj, so we had to build with --disable-java/--without-java whichever it
is. So when the FCFGMerge.jar tool was added we had to have an
alternative, so I converted it to pyAltFCFGMerge, but Hamburg couldn't
use python tools :-(, so they had to retain the java one.

If pyAltFCFGMerge still works (i.e. you still get the bug list of
filters shown in the file dialog / generates the same results as the
java one (which it is *supposed* to do) then sure, drop the java one and
use only the python one.

C.