On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 06:15:39PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Sunday 27 June 2004 17:40, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 04:54:08PM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote: > > > diff - 2.7 -> 2.8.1 > > > Should be painless (I think) and I dont see why should we keep the old > > > version http://www.gnu.org/directory/GNU/diffutils.html > > > > Newer versions of diff change some of the formatting information, > > which can break scripts. > > Just as newer scripts might break because they assume diff output from the > current version. The interesting question would be if this is considered a > bug by the GNU diff developers. They seem to have regarded it as a feature (I recalled this one since I modified diffstat a couple of times to work around the changes). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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