State of tools/dev/awk and tools/build/build-svn-deps-win.pl

Ivan Zhakov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel
Message-ID <CAPZho097eRTJLvnrvbL5OQwAzWW7fDWwsONqzy_wEk-+0GCFqA@mail.gmail.com>
I have just noticed that source tree and tarball contains awk source code.
It was added in r1914373 [1]
[[[
In tools/dev: Copy awk from
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/win32-msi/trunk/awk

build-svn-deps-win.pl require AWK but a binary version is not so easy to
find
anymore. Thus include the sources here so we can build our own.
]]]

However:

1. Apache HTTP Server no longer requires AWK for CMake-based build since
r1919413. The change was backported to Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x in r1926319
[3].

2. tools/dev/awk is included in tarball, but NOTICE doesn't contains
Copyright information for awk source code.

3. The build-svn-deps-win.pl script uses NMake-based build for Apache HTTP
server, which is outdated.

4. I would say that most parts of the build-svn-deps-win.pl script are
superseded by using CMake together with vcpkg (also described in INSTALL).

5. The build-svn-deps-win.pl script doesn't validate checksums when
fetching remote data.

Given all the above I suggest we remove tools/dev/awk and tools/dev/
build-svn-deps-win.pl from source code and final Subversion 1.15.0 tarball.

Thoughts?

[1]: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/?revision=1914373&view=revision
[2]: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/?revision=r1919413&view=revision
[3]: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/?revision=r1926319&view=revision

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Ivan Zhakov
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