Coreutils update/mktemp

Moritz Heiber moe at lunar-linux.org
Sun Apr 20 21:47:38 CEST 2008


On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:38:22 +0200
Zbigniew Luszpinski <zbiggy at o2.pl> wrote:

> The last 2 lines should be considered:
> "A different, but compatible, implementation of mktemp is available
> as part of GNU coreutils."
> 
> The question is how much different, but compatible it is.
> And if this difference is important to us.
> 
> coreutils is still developed when mktemp package stopped on April 1,
> 2003.

Its not about the IF .. its about the HOW. We are definitely going to
replace the module 'mktemp' with the version shipping alongside
coreutils now. Florin already went ahead (see commits mailinglist) but
didn't factor in all the variables.

Regards,

Moritz

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