Re: New copyright program

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.

cheers

andrew