Porting patch(1) from NetBSD to FreeBSD (was Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!)

[Adrian Chadd]

On 28 October 2012 03:55, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor at kovesdan.org> wrote:

> Hi Hiren,
>
> good to hear that someone is working on this! However, porting these
> utilies is much tougher than it apparently seems. There are much more
> criteria than just it compiles and works. More specifically, you should
> make sure that:

[snip]

* It's totally bug compatible for now with gnu patch/diff.
* You write a _lot_ of test cases for the test framework, so people
can do automated regression testing on both performance and behaviour.

It'd be nice to have more regression testing. :-)



Adrian