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On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 11:43:59AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > ==> ${REINPLACE_CMD} has different semantics on -current and -stable
> > 
> > Maintainer only using -stable won't be able to get that error and fix it
> > _before_ submitting.
> 
> Yeah, I really don't like this.  At the very minimum there needs to be
> an easy way port maintainers can test with all variants of the
> REINPLACE_CMD implementation to make sure it works in all cases.  The
> differences in regexp syntax is going to be another major cause of
> tears.

Personally I fail to see what is so wrong with making Perl a
BUILD_DEPENDS.  I did this for my own ports.  IMO just about every system
out there is going to have perl installed for one reason or another.  So
I don't see this as an unreasonable dependancy.

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