Re: [Quilt-dev] [patch 3/8] tac is not portable

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Gary,

[Gary V. Vaughan]
> Actually, I'd be even happier if the dependency on tac was dropped in
> favour of always using the perl snippet (or equivalent portable work
> alike).

The perl equivalent is about 3 times slower than tac for me, so I don't
think it is a good idea to just replace it for everyone. Same holds for
all other compatibility problems BTW, fixing them should preferably not
cause significant slowdowns for other users.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare