Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:27:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Removing perl usage from mergemaster Message-ID: <20020605151842.V89686-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020605214512.GA16384@hades.hell.gr>
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[ I'm replacing -hackers with -arch for reasons that are clear below. ]
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> Hello dougb & all,
>
> 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.
NetBSD's stat(1) is very feature rich, compiles cleanly on -current, and
handled all the stuff I threw at it in semi-rigorous testing. I can't
imagine anyone objecting to the import, but here's your chance.
Meanwhile, my apologies to those -current users who've been
inconvenienced.... somewhate ironic considering my enthusiastic
campaigning to get rid of perl in the base. Mea culpa.
Doug
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