Re: New copyright program

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 08/19/2011 07:31 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Kris Jurka wrote:
> >> Did you also try the "use Tie::File" addition in my fix because your
> >> current coding doesn't work at all.  The tie operation is key to actually
> >> writing out the modified copyright notice.  Your version just updates the
> >> copyright year in memory, but never gets it back to the file.
> > Ah, that did fix it;  thanks.  I am attached the updated committed
> > copyright.pl.  I also skipped symlinks.
> >
> 
> It probably doesn't matter that much in this context, but I should point 
> out that Tie::File is not universally available. Some years ago I had to 
> revert its use in the buildfarm code for that reason. In general we 
> should try to avoid adding extra dependencies wherever possible.

Oh, great.  :-(

I can easily change this to rewrite files that contain copyright changes
--- should I?

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