Re: [MacPerl] ports and builds

[Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>]

On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Chris Nandor wrote:

> 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.
> 
Ah, good to know. I'll have to improve my MPW education.

If I were arguing the other side, that would have been my first argument
also. Two mechanisms - two sources of error.

But the thing's been aired.... :-)

> 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.

Diff seems to me to be the best mechanism for exchanging info between
porters, though, and so I suppose anyone who's keen on helping out in
doing that might want to see about getting up to speed on diff and patch.

Arved



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