cvs commit: ports/security/vuxml vuln.xml

[Oliver Eikemeier]

Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 07:18:59PM +0100, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> 
>>Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:22:33AM -0800, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
>>>
>>>>eik         2004/03/11 09:22:33 PST
>>>>
>>>>FreeBSD ports repository
>>>>
>>>>Modified files:
>>>>  security/vuxml       vuln.xml 
>>>>Log:
>>>>add a modified tag to vid 09d418db-70fd-11d8-873f-0020ed76ef5a
>>>>
>>>>Revision  Changes    Path
>>>>1.37      +1 -0      ports/security/vuxml/vuln.xml
>>>
>>>
>>>In addition, the modified entry should be sorted to the top.
>>
>>Is this really desirable? It is much harder to see the diffs in CVS then.
> 
> Yes, that is a downside.  However, it is imperative unless we are
> willing to force all tools to scan the entire file each time for
> updates.  With the chronological sorting, tools can stop once they see a
> date older than the latest entry that they encountered on the last scan.

Since history is considered very valuable in the FreeBSD project, I guess
I would prefer that over a slight runtime optimization for ceratain tools.

How much time does it take to produce a sorted file once and cache that?