Re: [htdig-dev] Problems with whatsnew.pl

[Alexander C. <A....@la...>]

What? They are still working on 3.1.x almost a thousand years from now?
Talk about a slow development cycle, will the universal increase of
entropy then be an important factor in the development cycle of the 3.2
series?

		--- Alex

> The modified date for whatsnew.pl should be an immediate clue.  The
> 3.2 version of htdig didn't start to be developed until the last couple
> years, and whatsnew.pl hasn't even kept up with early developments in
> the 3.1.x series in 2999, so it's pretty hopeless to try to get it to
> work with 3.2.  There is a different whatsnew script on ftp.ccsf.org
> that can handle 3.1.x databases, but it's a bit tricky to get it to
> work because it requires special Perl libraries.  There's nothing
> equivalent for 3.2.

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