From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 6 10:11:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D3C37B406; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:11:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g56HB5Jn089092; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:11:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g56HB5tG089091; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:11:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:11:05 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Doug Barton Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Removing perl usage from mergemaster Message-ID: <20020606101105.E59829@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <20020605214512.GA16384@hades.hell.gr> <20020605151842.V89686-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020605151842.V89686-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com>; from DougB@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:27:47PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message