Could we have a __FreeBSD_version bump for the diking out of perl from the
base system please? A chunk of ports work needs to be done to conditionally
use perl vs sed for in-line replacements on lots of Makefiles.
Thanks,
-aDe
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Ade Lovett wrote:
Could we have a __FreeBSD_version bump for the diking out of perl from the
base system please? A chunk of ports work needs to be done to conditionally
use perl vs sed for in-line replacements on lots of Makefiles.
I agree that a __FreeBSD_version bump is appropriate, but
On 05/16/02 17:46, Maxime Henrion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree that a __FreeBSD_version bump is appropriate, but why not always
simply use sed for this ?
Because not everyone using the ports system has the in-place editing feature
of sed that was recently added, and thus it needs to be
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 05:52:45PM -0500, Ade Lovett wrote:
On 05/16/02 17:46, Maxime Henrion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree that a __FreeBSD_version bump is appropriate, but why not always
simply use sed for this ?
Because not everyone using the ports system has the in-place editing
Ade == Ade Lovett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ade Because not everyone using the ports system has the in-place
Ade editing feature of sed that was recently added, and thus it
Ade needs to be conditional on ${OSVERSION}.
Why can't we use ed for in-place edits?
--lyndon
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On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 06:17:44PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
Why can't we use ed for in-place edits?
perl -pi.hold -e 's/FOO/BAR/g' ${WRKSRC}/a/b/{X,Y}
is not as easy to do with `ed'.
People should find
perl -pi.hold -e 's/FOO/BAR/g' ${WRKSRC}/a/b/{X,Y}
is not as easy to do with `ed'.
It's not *that* hard. 10 lines of shell script is preferable to
XX MB of perl bloat. Especially for this sort of problem.
--lyndon
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On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 06:17:44PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
Ade == Ade Lovett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ade Because not everyone using the ports system has the in-place
Ade editing feature of sed that was recently added, and thus it
Ade needs to be conditional on
