What are some scripts in tools directory for?

[saschanaz]

It seems make_file.py, make_minigzip.py, merge_asm.py, etc. are not used by other scripts nor documented anywhere. What are they for?

merge_asm.py even is broken because it refers os without importing, so I would say they are obsolete?

[kripken]

make_file.py's comment suggests we used it in debugging tests. The last real update was in 2011 though, and I can't remember using this at all. We can remove it I think.

make_minigzip.py was used in zlib testing somehow. I don't remember the details, but we can remove it.

merge_asm.py looks broken, yeah - I think it was started but not finished. Can be removed.

[saschanaz]

The list continues:

• autodebugger_c.py
• autodebugger_indenter.py
• autodebugger_js.py
• autodediffer.py
• bisect_pair_lines.py
• bisect_pair_wast.py
• bisectpair.py
• creat_dom_pk_codes.py
• diff_autodebugger.py
• eval_on_use.js
• file2json.py
• find_bigis.py
• ll-strip.py
• parse_unaligned.py
• profile_stripper.py
• reproduceriter.py
• scan_js.py
• scan_ll.py
• stubify_ll.py
• traverse.py

[kripken]

Some of those are debugging tools,

autodebugger_c.py
autodebugger_indenter.py
autodebugger_js.py
autodediffer.py
bisect_pair_lines.py
bisect_pair_wast.py
bisect_pair_.py
diff_autodebugger.py
find_bigis.py
ll-strip.py
scan_js.py
scan_ll.py
stubify_ll.py

We could maybe move them to a subdir debug or something like that.

creat_dom_pk_codes.py was added by @juj, it generates a table of codes for an html.h API call.

eval_on_use.js was a compression experiment, can be removed.

file2json.py looks like something before we could embed/preload files. Can be removed, although git history shows a commit in 2016, hmm.

Not sure what parse_unaligned.py, profile_stripper.py, traverse.py are. Can probably remove.

reproduceriter.py was a weird experiment. I think @juj has a better way to do it, but we should keep it around for now (maybe in a subdir "experimental" or such).

[saschanaz]

Thank you for your explanations 👍

file2json.py looks like something before we could embed/preload files. Can be removed, although git history shows a commit in 2016, hmm.

I'm not sure why the author of #4688 used it...