[ On Thursday, March 7, 2002 at 16:46:04 (-0500), Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- wrote:
]
> Subject: Re: sccs2rcs to perl
>
> I see a problem with the CVS code as distributed. That is, it has
> a single csh script which is both slow and makes the CVS code-base
> depend on an additional unix "utility" when it doesn't have to.
Well, it's only a contributed utility, not a core part of the CVS code
as distributed.....
> I believe I addressed both of these problems with my re-write of the
> script in perl.
No, you did not. Only a translation to POSIX Shell or C would have
addressed both problems.
While the translation to perl may have made the script run faster, it
only changed the reliance on one semi-standard tool to another less
standard tool (perl is neither commonly available on all unix platforms,
nor is it terribly small and fast, though it may be faster than csh).
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