Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:07:24 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@kovesdan.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@freebsd.org>, hiren panchasara <hiren.panchasara@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Porting patch(1) from NetBSD to FreeBSD (was Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!) Message-ID: <CAJ-VmomQVC-OfY7a%2B-tH0W9ekHGW6JidQ869Q6H94pTSk8xoKQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <508D0F11.1060203@kovesdan.org> References: <CALCpEUHXkyPgqaypkiatx978jjMbiYtvMZC3nNHNpnRSdLf=PA@mail.gmail.com> <508D0F11.1060203@kovesdan.org>
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On 28 October 2012 03:55, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@kovesdan.org> wrote: > Hi Hiren, > > good to hear that someone is working on this! However, porting these > utilies is much tougher than it apparently seems. There are much more > criteria than just it compiles and works. More specifically, you should > make sure that: [snip] * It's totally bug compatible for now with gnu patch/diff. * You write a _lot_ of test cases for the test framework, so people can do automated regression testing on both performance and behaviour. It'd be nice to have more regression testing. :-) Adrian
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