Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless

[Tom Lord]

One third way is to revive a proper and ambitious development project
for GNU patch.   Not sure it'd be worth it, personally.   Perhaps
there is another third way.

-t


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    > Patrick Mauritz: 
    > > an alternative could be to import patch into tla as library and do the
    > > necessary tweaks there - a libpatch might be necessary to
    > > significantly boost tla/win32's performance anyway.
    > 
    > Occasionally I have the same feeling. I usually get over the feeling
    > pretty quick when I consider two of the ramifications:
    > 
    > 1. the codebase for tla would grow substantially and
    > 
    > 2. We open ourselves to breaking one of our tenant contracts with the
    > users -- that archives and changesets are "transparent". If we start 
    > using our very own diff, patch, gzip and tar, we open up to the nasty
    > possibility of divergeance. 
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