From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 5 15:46:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE54337B405; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:46:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0350.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.95] helo=mindspring.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17FjXi-0004Mf-00; Wed, 05 Jun 2002 15:46:14 -0700 Message-ID: <3CFE9494.4407AD32@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 15:45:40 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Removing perl usage from mergemaster References: <20020605151842.V89686-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Here's a patch that removes all trails of Perl usage from mergemaster. > > Your work looks good, but I wish you'd asked before embarking on it. My > current plan is actually to import netbsd's stat(1), which will solve this > problem very neatly. I was hoping to do it sooner than now, but some > family business, and a dead hard drive interfered with that plan. I am > reasonably sure that I can get to it tonight. If all it did was motivate you to do the patch sooner than you would have, then it was worthwhile. ;^). If on the other hand, you want to wait so that you aren't rushed, there's really no reason to not commit his code in the interim, as an interim fix that you will later replace with "stat(1)". Either way, it's all nice work. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message