Re: [PATCH] better header cache versioning
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:31:11AM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
> * Brendan Cully on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 at 15:23:02 -0700:
> > Here's a patch that attempts to version the header cache more
> > accurately. It uses a little script to extract the type definitions
> > for the structures hcache saves, pipes them through an MD5, and uses
> > an unsigned long's worth of the result as a CRC.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> Is it save to assume that Python is present on every system?
No, it almost certainly won't be installed on (say) a NetBSD system.
(And neither will perl)
David
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