newer versions of gnu diff and patch

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 5:40 PM +0200 7/30/04, Radim Kolar wrote:
>in freebsd 5.2 i have in base system diff 2.7 and patch 2.1.
>Are there any plans to import newer versions into base system
>for 5.3 release?

There is an explicit decision to leave diff and patch as they are.
The newer gnu patch is also incompatible to the older patch in
some ways, so it is not a trivial "just drop it in" upgrade.  A
new version of patch *will* break some things, and we certainly
do not need that right now.

What we would like to do is to move to a bsd-licensed version of
patch, which I am supposed to be working on in my copious spare
time...

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu