Re: [9front] deleting ape/diff3, ape/diff, and ape/patch?

[Jacob Moody <moody@posixcafe.org>]

I am very much in favor of killing these ape programs,
the less ape the better.

Thanks for your work in making that possible.

As a side note it would be nice to have some
inventory of what we still rely on that is using
ape. My initial guess would be just gs but I think
there is some more.

On 1/20/24 21:16, ori@eigenstate.org wrote:
> As of the last commit to cmd/diff/merge3, we should have
> a usable native 3-way merge in tree. Barring bugs, it
> should be able to do all that our in-tree scripts need.
> 
> As a result, I'd like to remove the buggy, crashy, and
> obsolte ape/patch, ape/diff, and ape/diff3 utilities
> from our tree by default, and move it into an extrenal
> repository, where it will be just as well maintaned as
> it was in-tree.
> 
> Are there any people currently using them in scripts?
> Are there any missing features that would prevent a
> transition of them to the native tools?
> 
> We will be losing the ability to apply non-unified
> patches.
> 
> Are there any other objections?
>