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Re: [PATCH] Use find instead of perl in t5000 to get file modification time

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PHPeter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
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Oct 31, 2008, 12:59 UTC
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Alex Riesen wrote:
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> Sam Vilain, Thu, Oct 30, 2008 06:29:14 +0100:
>> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:38 +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
>> > I could not find what exactly does the ActiveState's Perl use for its stat
>> > implementation (and honestly, have no motivation to look harder).
>> > It seems to honor TZ, but the produced time does not seem to be either
>> > local or GMT.
>>
>> See, the difference is that the perl is portable and your patch isn't.
>
> ActiveState Perl on Windows is portable? To another windows, maybe.

Quite aside from missing the point (which is that Vanilla Perl runs everywhere, including Windows[1]), this is also factually incorrect. A quick check of the ActiveState website would reveal ActivePerl downloads for AIX, Linux (x86 and x86-64), Solaris (x86, SPARC, and SPARC64), MacOSX (x86 and PPC), and source code, in addition to Windows.

Looks pretty portable to me.
Peter Harris
[1] http://vanillaperl.com/
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  1. Use find instead of perl in t5000 to get file modification timeAlex Riesen, Oct 29, 2008
  2. Jeff KingOct 29, 2008
  3. Alex RiesenOct 30, 2008
  4. Sam VilainOct 30, 2008
  5. Alex RiesenOct 31, 2008
  6. Peter HarrisOct 31, 2008
  7. Alex RiesenOct 31, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinOct 31, 2008
  9. Alex RiesenOct 31, 2008
  10. Johannes SchindelinNov 1, 2008
  11. Alex RiesenNov 1, 2008
  12. Johannes SchindelinNov 1, 2008
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