Re: What is the patch in XSLoader.pm good for?

[email protected] (Roderich Schupp) Fri, 12 Jul 2019 13:35:21 +0200

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On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 5:32 AM Oliver Betz <[email protected]> wrote:

> PatchContent.pm has an entry for XSLoader.pm:
> ...
>
What is it good for?
>

Good question, I dunno. Unfortunately the commit log that added this entry
was lost 13 years ago,
so that won't help either. It's effectively useless, as XSLoader.pm
nowadays is always included in
the "FILE" section (cf. PAR::Tutorial, chapter "Anatomy of a Self-Contained
PAR executable")
of a packed executable in *unpatched* form (all PAR::Filter stuff, incl.
PatchContent, applies only
to  the zip section of the executable).

Cheers, Roderich