From 6e62c564166c6b8e85cc6b543138ae08c21b5bc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:45:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove useless script "mkrcs" and update README.

---
 Demo/scripts/README   |  6 ++---
 Demo/scripts/mkrcs.py | 61 -------------------------------------------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100755 Demo/scripts/mkrcs.py

diff --git a/Demo/scripts/README b/Demo/scripts/README
index d8434e8d43b..8e1b26f42f7 100644
--- a/Demo/scripts/README
+++ b/Demo/scripts/README
@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ See also the Tools/scripts directory!
 beer.py			Print the classic 'bottles of beer' list.
 eqfix.py		Fix .py files to use the correct equality test operator
 fact.py			Factorize numbers
-find-uname.py		Search for Unicode characters using regexps.
+find-uname.py		Search for Unicode characters using regexps
 from.py			Summarize mailbox
 ftpstats.py		Summarize ftp daemon log file
 lpwatch.py		Watch BSD line printer queues
 makedir.py		Like mkdir -p
 markov.py		Markov chain simulation of words or characters
-mboxconvvert.py		Convert MH or MMDF mailboxes to unix mailbox format
-mkrcs.py		Fix symlinks named RCS into parallel tree
+mboxconvert.py		Convert MH or MMDF mailboxes to unix mailbox format
 morse.py		Produce morse code (audible or on AIFF file)
+newslist.py		List all newsgroups on a NNTP server as HTML pages
 pi.py			Print all digits of pi -- given enough time and memory
 pp.py			Emulate some Perl command line options
 primes.py		Print prime numbers
diff --git a/Demo/scripts/mkrcs.py b/Demo/scripts/mkrcs.py
deleted file mode 100755
index cacdda0a546..00000000000
--- a/Demo/scripts/mkrcs.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-#! /usr/bin/env python
-
-# A rather specialized script to make sure that a symbolic link named
-# RCS exists pointing to a real RCS directory in a parallel tree
-# referenced as RCStree in an ancestor directory.
-# (I use this because I like my RCS files to reside on a physically
-# different machine).
-
-import os
-
-def main():
-    rcstree = 'RCStree'
-    rcs = 'RCS'
-    if os.path.islink(rcs):
-        print '%r is a symlink to %r' % (rcs, os.readlink(rcs))
-        return
-    if os.path.isdir(rcs):
-        print '%r is an ordinary directory' % (rcs,)
-        return
-    if os.path.exists(rcs):
-        print '%r is a file?!?!' % (rcs,)
-        return
-    #
-    p = os.getcwd()
-    up = ''
-    down = ''
-    # Invariants:
-    # (1) join(p, down) is the current directory
-    # (2) up is the same directory as p
-    # Ergo:
-    # (3) join(up, down) is the current directory
-    #print 'p =', repr(p)
-    while not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(p, rcstree)):
-        head, tail = os.path.split(p)
-        #print 'head = %r; tail = %r' % (head, tail)
-        if not tail:
-            print 'Sorry, no ancestor dir contains %r' % (rcstree,)
-            return
-        p = head
-        up = os.path.join(os.pardir, up)
-        down = os.path.join(tail, down)
-        #print 'p = %r; up = %r; down = %r' % (p, up, down)
-    there = os.path.join(up, rcstree)
-    there = os.path.join(there, down)
-    there = os.path.join(there, rcs)
-    if os.path.isdir(there):
-        print '%r already exists' % (there, )
-    else:
-        print 'making %r' % (there,)
-        makedirs(there)
-    print 'making symlink %r -> %r' % (rcs, there)
-    os.symlink(there, rcs)
-
-def makedirs(p):
-    if not os.path.isdir(p):
-        head, tail = os.path.split(p)
-        makedirs(head)
-        os.mkdir(p, 0777)
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()