504444 - Improve usability of Java-to-C++ parser translation tools

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Ben Newman (:bnewman) (:benjamn)]

While invoking the translator is easy enough (as described in parser/html/java/README.txt), it's somewhat difficult to determine what changes the translator is making.  The 'make sync' and 'make translate' commands should produce more useful output.

Comment 1

[Ben Newman (:bnewman) (:benjamn)]

Attachment: Refactor repetitive makefile shell commands into external scripts

(In reply to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499141#c8)
> This all started when I wanted to change 'make sync' so that it didn't clobber
> local files.  I noticed that I was repeating the same changes in two or three
> different Makefiles, so I moved the common bits into proper shell scripts.

Comment 2

[Ben Newman (:bnewman) (:benjamn)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=388822) [details]

Pushed to mozilla-central:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d397b8424df6

Leaving the bug open because there may be other usability improvements to make.  Further changes should probably be filed as depended-on bugs, though.

Comment 3

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.