Mike Sullivan wrote:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 28 08:27:36 2006
Dan Price wrote:
Does anyone know why we have gpatch but not gdiff in /usr/bin?
Because back in 1999 when Mike Sullivan did the original "Getting
with the Freeware Program" ARC case (PSARC 1999/555), his initial
list of essential software included gpatch, but not gdiff. Other
than saying it could not include everything everyone wanted, but
was a first pass at what seemed most important, there is no
rationale listed I can see for gpatch.
My rationale was that our patch seemed pretty broken and wasn't
getting much attention, so it seemed nice to provide gpatch.
As the list I came up with was based on what I wanted, felt I
could do, and what others begged me for gpatch certainly fit
the criteria :)
And I know I've been very grateful for it since it works with all the
patches we get & exchange with the open source X community, unlike our
/usr/bin/patch, while our diff -u is close enough for most things we
need to generate to send to them (though I do have to install gdiff
when making patches that add files, as noted earlier in this thread).
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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