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Subject: Re: [new port] usage of shar command
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RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> writes:

> On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:17:38 -0700
> Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> In any case, thanks for expressing your confusion, it's actually
>> really helpful to get information from the perspective of a new user.
>
> I wonder how many new users have read the bugs section of the shar man
> page, and know how to check such files for malicious script lines.
> That's not much of an issue for ports submission, but people are
> routinely posting these files in the mailing lists.
>
> Am I the only one that thinks it's odd that in 2010 we're still using
> executable scripts to distribute text files?

The last time I heard we still use shar(1) and not diff(1) is because
some committers use deficient scripts to automate their process of testing.