[Gnu-arch-users] Re: --skip-present implemented

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Miles Bader <address@hidden>

    > Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
    > > I don't suppose that anyone in the gnu-arch-users community feels the
    > > urge to take on forking GNU patch?   It would be a medium-long term
    > > commitment and being a conservative unix pedant would help.

    > Do you find the maintainer uncooperative, or do you want to make
    > controversial changes?

Neither.  It doesn't have to be an unfriendly fork.   Just one that
thinks about arch issues (of which there are now a few).

I've mostly given up on dealing with the GNU maintainers of core apps
-- but perhaps or perhaps not that is premature in this case.

The GNU page for patch,  http://www.gnu.org/software/patch/, offers no
contact points.

-t

p.s.: personally, I think that undergrad education should consist of
things like clean-rooming the core apps and kernels -- but undoubtedly
that is a minority view (at the moment).