Re: [PATCH] Make adding notes to patchlevel.h easier

andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig) wrote:
:Would people like that adding a comment to patchlevel.h is as easy as
:
:    perl -x patchlevel.h comment ...
:
:? I have a patch for doing that. I think I have to credit Simon Cozens
:on doing the initial implementation, I'm not sure, I've used this one
:for ages.

Thanks, I think this would be very useful; applied as #18749.

:+close PLOUT or warn "Couldn't close filehandle writing to patchlevel.new : $!";

Hmm, shouldn't this die? It implies the patchlevel.new was not correctly
written, doesn't it?

:+Please keep empty lines below so patching of this file doesn't
:+interfere with the following lines.

I don't understand why patching the file would interfere with anything
below this; could you explain some more?

Hugo

• [PATCH] Make adding notes to patchlevel.h easier by andreas.koenig
• Re: [PATCH] Make adding notes to patchlevel.h easier by hv
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