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From: wagle@mac.com (Perry Wagle)
To: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Subject: [Cocci] Transformations for Firefox source files
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 17:50:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80E0E659-6BED-4A87-AEF6-DE5775583B12@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d03d92ec-2cbd-8c31-3cdc-c1982425b684@users.sourceforge.net>


> On Jul 17, 2016, at 12:14 AM, SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
>> So my question is whether you guys think Coccinelle would be useful to me
>> in comprehending and doing MASS transformations of the firefox source?
> 
> For which kind of source code transformations are you especially interested in?

With Firefox, it the excision of the bookmarks subsystem from a current (moving target) source tree and replacing it with my own.  I might want to turn it into an extension first, and to turn my extension into a subsystem.

> With which search patterns would you like to achieve further software improvements?

I don?t know yet.  Depends on what I can do.  II?m just skimmed some of the documentation, checking to see if I should dive in.

> Regards,
> Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-18  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-17  2:12 [Cocci] Coccinelle vs Firefox Perry Wagle
2016-07-17  5:47 ` Julia Lawall
2016-07-17 22:44   ` Perry Wagle
2016-07-18  2:05     ` Perry Wagle
2016-07-18  5:11     ` Julia Lawall
2016-07-18 11:34       ` Perry Wagle
2016-07-18 15:39         ` Julia Lawall
2016-07-18 23:17           ` Perry Wagle
2016-07-18 15:57         ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-07-18 23:26           ` Perry Wagle
2016-07-18 16:19         ` [Cocci] Object-orientation with SmPL? SF Markus Elfring
2016-07-18 23:31           ` Perry Wagle
2016-07-17  6:48 ` [Cocci] Support for more programming languages? SF Markus Elfring
2016-07-18  0:43   ` Perry Wagle
2016-07-18 15:20     ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-07-18 23:39       ` Perry Wagle
2016-07-19  7:57         ` SF Markus Elfring
2016-07-17  7:14 ` [Cocci] Transformations for Firefox source files SF Markus Elfring
2016-07-18  0:50   ` Perry Wagle [this message]
2016-07-18 15:27     ` SF Markus Elfring

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