Re: [MacPerl] ports and builds

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 11:26 PM -0500 1/13/99, 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.

There's a GNU diff that comes with Alpha.  It's driven by Apple Events; I
just launched it and it has no user interface.  Someone who knows Tcl and
MacPerl's Apple Events can probabaly easily translate the driver.

I've never seen a standalone patch.  A quick search of Info-Mac shows
nothing useful.  Doesn't sound like the kind of tool the average Mac user
would need.

}
} 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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