[Mesa-dev] Cleaning up Python scripts

Ian Romanick idr at freedesktop.org
Wed Sep 14 09:14:52 PDT 2011


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On 09/14/2011 11:02 AM, Jose Fonseca wrote:
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>> What are people's opinions on this? Is it worth spending some
>> time to clean up some of this code?
> 
> It's hard to say...
> 
> A lot of this code is disjoint anyway, so it wouldn't make sense 
> trying to share code between unrelated scripts.

That is definitely true.  Unifying code can make it more likely to break
scripts that you don't use.

> It might be better to do cleanup of the scripts based on pain
> points, rather than make it a goal on itself. That is, which python
> code people touched recently and felt that could be cleaned up?

And the other question: Which scripts do people avoid changing, even
when they should, because it is too painful? :)
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