Re: newer versions of gnu diff and patch

From: Garance A Drosihn (drosih_at_rpi.edu)
Date: 07/30/04

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To: Radim Kolar <hsn@netmag.cz>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org

    At 5:40 PM +0200 7/30/04, Radim Kolar wrote:
    >in freebsd 5.2 i have in base system diff 2.7 and patch 2.1.
    >Are there any plans to import newer versions into base system
    >for 5.3 release?

    There is an explicit decision to leave diff and patch as they are.
    The newer gnu patch is also incompatible to the older patch in
    some ways, so it is not a trivial "just drop it in" upgrade. A
    new version of patch *will* break some things, and we certainly
    do not need that right now.

    What we would like to do is to move to a bsd-licensed version of
    patch, which I am supposed to be working on in my copious spare
    time... 

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
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