From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 9 18:27:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA25786 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 18:27:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roguetrader.com (brandon@cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA25780 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 18:27:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by roguetrader.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA00466 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 19:29:18 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 19:29:18 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Distributed 'patch' is achingly out of date Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just wondering if anybody has considered getting a newer version of 'patch' included in the source tree? The version we have is 2.1. Version 2.4 is available. Are we running into GNU concerns? Or has nobody noticed? I for one always have to upgrade, because patch 2.1 has arbitrary limits (such as the length of a line cannot extend beyond 4096 chars). Also, patch 2.4 is generally smarter and better--not to mention it works with RCS and SCCS without problem.. -Brandon Gillespie