make pmcrenumber broken?

[coke]

make pmcrenumber doesn't change src/pmc/pmc.num, even though it contains many PMCs that no longer exist.

This target should probably insure that all the PMCs from src/pmc/*.pmc are included, and any that are no longer available are removed.

Related ticket here:  http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=48587

[cotto]

The pmcrenumber.pl script wasn't intended to be as smart as you expect it to be. The only thing it currently does is rewrite src/pmc/pmc.num so that the numbers in the file reflect order of the PMCs listed in that file. This is so we can edit a single line in the file, make pmcrenumber and have it work.

There's no reason that the script couldn't be further refined to detect non-existent PMCs or even to generate the list based on an appropriate set of criteria. The only reason I didn't bother was because I didn't think that the script would be used very often, as the set of core PMCs is fairly stable at this point. If this isn't the case and the script is worth completing, I (or someone else interested in a Perl task) can take care of it.

[cotto]

I'm tagging this as "newbie" since this is a fairly well-isolated task that'd be a good way for a newcomer to become familiar with how PMCs are built.

[coke]

Added a note to tools/dev/pmcrenumber.pl in r43231.