On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Allan McRae <mcrae_allan@hotmail.com> wrote:
Xavier wrote:
and bask in the glory and speed of perl
Oooo, I am, I am! And while we are on the perl bus: http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p=pacman.git;a=commitdiff;h=555e2091725...
Now I preface this by saying I know next to nothing about perl.... but from what I can tell, this script looks good. Just one query, when adding an item to a hash, does perl not return an indicator about whether a new item was created or not? If so, we can probably combine You might be right, but I think it is a bit clearer as is? I don't
Comments/questions/feedback would be much appreciated there. Perl isn't always obvious at first sight, so be sure to tell me if there are places that need more commenting. think we are going to get much of a performance gain over 0.1 seconds anyway. :) Note that the hash table holds (key, value) pairs of (pkginfo, # of times found). I didn't get this at first but it makes sense.
Otherwise, I'm happy to bung the copyright notice on the top and recreate the patch. Did we decide on a name for this yet? Xavier called it repolist, you wanted to call it paclist and/or repopkg.
-Dan