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Date:      Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:11:05 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Removing perl usage from mergemaster
Message-ID:  <20020606101105.E59829@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020605151842.V89686-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com>; from DougB@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:27:47PM -0700
References:  <20020605214512.GA16384@hades.hell.gr> <20020605151842.V89686-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:27:47PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> 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

Doug, mergemaster has been "broken" for almost a month now due to its use
of perl.  This is tool long for such an important tool.  I would like to
commit this patch now as a band-aid solution -- with full expectation you
will back it out once stat(1) is ready.

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