Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 16:06:42 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: walt <wsheets@sbcglobal.net>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mergemaster broken? Message-ID: <95612.1023286002@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "05 Jun 2002 15:01:24 %2B0200." <xzp4rgh282j.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 05 Jun 2002 15:01:24 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Looks like this is going to be necessary after each > > buildworld, then. :-/ > > No. Mergemaster should not use Perl, and the fact that it does is a > bug. That's probably an overstatement. Perl used to be in the base system, and was, at the time an easy way to stat() a file. I'd say mergemaster's use of perl is "use of an obsoleted interface" at worst. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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