yearistype.sh questions

[Robert Elz]

    Date:        Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:32:56 -0400
    From:        "Steve Ward" <planet36 at gmail.com>
    Message-ID:  <f5c1222c0809262032s148beb9w92fa38209bb4cdaa at mail.gmail.com>

  | Why is the file "yearistype.sh" in tzdata*.tar.gz instead of tzcode*.tar.gz
  | (where it is used)?

Because it is effectively data, it is used by the tzdata files, and changes
in sync with those.

  | What is the purpose of copying "yearistype.sh" to "yearistype" during make?

The data files want something called yearistype not yearistype.sh - the
original has the .sh because it is written as a sh script.   It could be
re-written in C, perl, python, ruby, ....   The "executable" still needs to
be yearistype but there could be different implementations of that in
different languages.

kre