[Quilt-dev] Holger's patch mgmt. script (patcher, Perl)

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

Hello,

I took a look at Holger's Perl rewrite of Andrew's scripts. The script 
has some nice features, but my overall impression isn't that great.

What I like:
* Perl has much fewer syntactic warts than bash/grep/awk/etc.
* Much nicer debugging support.
* Much better documented code.
* Faster (most certainly).
* Allows to work from within a sub-directory of the working tree.
  [Do we want that?]

What I dislike:
* Monolithic script, more difficult to extend.
* Keeps some of the crappy parts of Andrew's scripts.
* Substitutes a bunch of scripts against a load of command line
  switches. Not nice.

Also:
* Quilt can already do several additional things.
* Quilt works reasonably well.
* I am too lazy to rewrite from scratch unless the benefit is essential.

Let's see what Holger will say :)

Cheers,
Andreas.