From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 5 15:27:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mrout2.yahoo.com (mrout2.yahoo.com [216.145.54.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E3A337B403; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:27:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoot.corp.yahoo.com (zoot.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.52.89]) by mrout2.yahoo.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/y.out) with ESMTP id g55MRlR66702; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:27:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dougb@localhost) by zoot.corp.yahoo.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g55MRlZ4089687; Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:27:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 15:27:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Subject: Re: Removing perl usage from mergemaster In-Reply-To: <20020605214512.GA16384@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: <20020605151842.V89686-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ 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 -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message