code review 41060044: syscall: replace mksyscall_windows.pl with mksyscall_wi...

syscall: replace mksyscall_windows.pl with mksyscall_windows.go

Not many windows users have perl installed. They can just use
standard go tools instead. Also mkerrors_windows.sh script
removed - we don't add any new "unix" errors to windows
syscall package anymore.

[brainman, 2013-12-20 11:10:21]

Hello golang-dev@googlegroups.com,

I'd like you to review this change to
https://go.googlecode.com/hg/

[gobot, 2013-12-20 16:26:15]

Replacing golang-dev with golang-codereviews.

[gobot, 2013-12-20 16:26:16]

Replacing golang-dev with golang-codereviews.

[rsc, 2013-12-20 16:55:47]

Thanks very much for doing this.

We split mksyscall_windows.pl from mksyscall.pl because there was enough
Windows-specific code to warrant that, but the two remain very similar. Can we
rename mksyscall_windows.go in this CL to mksyscall.go and make it replace the
original mksyscall.pl too? The Windows vs Unix differences should be easier to
accommodate in a single Go program than they were in a single Perl script.

Russ

[brainman, 2013-12-21 02:04:45]

I should have discussed my plan before I started. But I didn't know there would
be interest in converting mksyscall.pl. All "unix" computers would have perl
installed. I also did what I did, because I am not familiar with perl. The
program is complicated enough as is and I didn't want to make it more
complicated by adding "unix" code (everything would have to go into one source
file). And also I think we are mature enough project to eat our own food.

I can drop this, and start with mksyscall.pl, if you like. But I don't use
mksyscall.pl and are not familiar with all little tricks there. But I can figure
it out. Also I am bit slow, so it will take me a while.

Alternatively we could go ahead with this CL and then I change it later to
accommodate "unix" version.

Please, decide what you want and let me know. Thank you.

Alex

[brainman, 2014-03-04 10:42:10]

Russ, do you still want to proceed with this?

Alex

[rsc, 2014-03-05 20:25:04]

LGTM

This is fine for now.

[brainman, 2014-03-11 05:36:21]

*** Submitted as https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=3cd546ac3a99 ***

syscall: replace mksyscall_windows.pl with mksyscall_windows.go

Not many windows users have perl installed. They can just use
standard go tools instead. Also mkerrors_windows.sh script
removed - we don't add any new "unix" errors to windows
syscall package anymore.

LGTM=rsc
R=golang-codereviews, rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://codereview.appspot.com/41060044