diff --git a/tools/luals b/tools/luals
deleted file mode 100755
index 0da41d208b..0000000000
--- a/tools/luals
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/lua5.3
-
-function scripts (path)
-	local out = io.popen (
-		string.format ("find '%s' -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname \"[^_]*.lua\" | grep -ve /s_", path)
-	)
-	return function()
-		for file in out:lines() do
-			return file
-		end 
-		return nil
-	end
-end
-
-function ardour (v)
-	 local newline = string.find (v['description'], '\n')
-	 if newline then
-	    io.write (string.format ("T:%s:N:%s:D:%s\n", v['type'], v['name'], string.sub (v['description'], 0, newline-1)))
-	 else
-	    io.write (string.format ("T:%s:N:%s:D:%s\n", v['type'], v['name'], v['description']))
-	 end
-end
-
-for script in scripts ("share/scripts/") do
-	loadfile (script)()
-end
diff --git a/tools/mkluacatalog b/tools/mkluacatalog
deleted file mode 100755
index fb702d1ab2..0000000000
--- a/tools/mkluacatalog
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-tooldir=`dirname $0`
-
-$tooldir/luals | awk '
-BEGIN {
-	type_name_map["dsp"] = "DSP";
-	type_name_map["EditorAction"] = "Editor Actions";
-	type_name_map["EditorHook"] = "Editor Hooks";
-	type_name_map["SessionInit"] = "Session Initialization";
-	type_name_map["session"] = "Session";
-}
-/T:/ {
-	split ($0, a, ":");
-
-	if (a[2] in type_name_map) {
-		type_name = type_name_map[a[2]];
-	} else {
-		type_name = a[2];
-	}
-
-	types[scripts] = type_name;
-	type_names[type_name] = type_name;
-	names[scripts] = a[4];
-	descriptions[scripts] = a[6];
-	scripts++;
-}
-END {
-	tnc = asort (type_names);
-
-	for (tn = 1; tn <= tnc; ++tn) {
-		printf ("<h2>%s</h2>\n<dl>\n", type_names[tn]);
-		for (s = 1; s <= scripts; ++s) {
-			if (types[s] == type_names[tn]) {
-				printf ("<dt>%s</dt><dd>%s<dd>\n", names[s], descriptions[s]);
-			}
-		}
-		printf ("</dl>\n");
-	}
-}
-'