Re: [MacPerl] ports and builds

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 19.12 -0500 1999.01.13, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>I did have one thought, and maybe it's worth discussing now before
>everything gets locked in. What about support for patches? I'm thinking of
>a situation where correction of a single line in a single file of a Module
>of Death *is* the port, or something almost as trivial, in a pure Perl
>module. I know memory is cheap, but I cringe thinking of putting a whole
>Mac port up on a site just because line 212 in file UnixCentric.pm uses /
>instead of :.
>
>Maybe a parallel patch page on this hypothetical site? Click on the link
>for SlightlyWrong-1.00 and get the patches for it. Or some such...
>
>Assume I know nothing of diff & patch capabilities on MacOS. Which is
>pretty close to the truth, I've only ever really used these tools on UNIX.
>Is this doable? Practical?

Well, patch and diff are MPW tools.  But most people won't have them.
There is a diff in Perl, I dunno about a patch.  But regardless, it sounds
like more room for pilot error.

Perhaps for relatively "minor" ports we can simply work out a system of
smaller archives.  OTOH, as you say, disk space is cheap, and bandwith is
getting cheap, and almost all of these potential ported (non-XS) archives
are well under 50K anyway.

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