Re: New copyright program

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:37:29PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> On 08/19/2011 07:31 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >Kris Jurka wrote:
> >>Did you also try the "use Tie::File" addition in my fix because your
> >>current coding doesn't work at all. The tie operation is key to actually
> >>writing out the modified copyright notice. Your version just updates the
> >>copyright year in memory, but never gets it back to the file.
> >Ah, that did fix it; thanks. I am attached the updated committed
> >copyright.pl. I also skipped symlinks.
> >
>
> It probably doesn't matter that much in this context, but I should
> point out that Tie::File is not universally available. Some years
> ago I had to revert its use in the buildfarm code for that reason.
> In general we should try to avoid adding extra dependencies wherever
> possible.

Tie::File ships as part of core Perl for all non-EOL versions, so I
really can't consider this as a problem.

Cheers,
David.
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