darwinports_fastload source iteration

Paul Guyot pguyot at kallisys.net
Thu Jan 25 23:08:36 PST 2007


Le 26 janv. 07 à 01:42, Kevin Ballard a écrit :

> On Jan 24, 2007, at 6:48 PM, Paul Guyot wrote:
>
>> Le 24 janv. 07 à 07:12, Kevin Ballard a écrit :
>>
>>> Hrm, nobody has responded. I guess nobody cares?
>>>
>>> If I don't hear anything back in the next few days, I'll go ahead  
>>> and commit the change.
>>
>> I wrote those lines because we use readdir native command through  
>> MacPorts instead of glob. I don't know why, but I thought there  
>> was a good reason for the presence and use of a native  
>> replacement. Maybe when the readdir command was developed, it was  
>> in the Tcl 8.2.x area and glob didn't take the -directory option.  
>> Or the glob function from the Tcl version that shipped with a  
>> supported release of MacOS X was buggy or horribly slow.
>
> And this isn't a potential issue anymore? Are there any systems  
> that MacPorts may be used on today that might have any of the  
> possible problems you described?

I don't think so, but others might chime in.

Paul




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