Re: newer versions of gnu diff and patch

From: Tim Robbins (tjr_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 07/31/04

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To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>

    On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 02:41:32PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
    > 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...

    FWIW, I have been running with OpenBSD's version of patch on most of
    my machines for a year or more now, and haven't had any problems.

    Tim
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