Re: redundancy, and how to reduce it
Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
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> From: Andrew D Jewell <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:38:34 -0400 > > Is this something of interest to the community as a whole? > Should I work on changing some standard tools and submitting patches, > or should I shut the hell up? I like the idea of simplifying things. I suggest just doing one tool at first and seeing how the feedback goes. Maybe diffutils? "diff --help" would be good exercise. If you're interested in diffutils I suggest the latest alpha version 2.8.4, canonically at <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/> but that site is down so you might try the mirror at <ftp://linux-rep.fnal.gov/pub/mirrors/gnu/alpha/diffutils/>.