On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
Ken's Farce is probably good enough for our needs. However I did take a
brief look at Greg's scripts and he does a couple of other interesting
things, such as de-compressing all .gz files and un-archiving all .a
files before running the comparison.
Yeah, gzipped files contain a timestamp - farce does a cmp of the data after
the stamp, it just seemed more interesting than decompressing. I'm hopeful
that the .a archives are adequately processed now (my fix to make the testar
function work again).
Forgot to add - thanks for the comment, I'm hopeful that farce will
mostly answer the comparison question, but there is an amount of policy
in it, particularly the list of files which are allowed to differ - I'm
happy with these, but if it gets wider usage people may want to disagree
about some of these.
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