Re: mauve results posted nightly

[Stuart Ballard]

Brian Jones wrote:
> No, not forgotten but not started yet.  Won't have a decent response back
> to you for a week I guess.  Planning to send a patch... is there a way
> to combine two or more japize runs into a single file (non-overlapping
> packages)?

Hmm... not a trivial way, but it can be done.

gunzip file1.japi.gz file2.japi.gz
cat file1.japi file2.japi | sort > combined.japi
vi combined.japi
dd (strip off the duplicate first line)
:wq
gzip combined.japi

Of course, since the first line contains things like creation date, 
there's slight dataloss in combining two files with different creation 
dates. Oh, and I think this technique requires japi files created by 
japitools 0.9.2, because the code that made "sort" give the right order 
was only added in that version.

This also won't work if any of the same classes are included in both 
japis, but you said "non-overlapping packages" so you should be okay on 
that front.

Out of interest, since you seem to have a handle on solving the problem, 
what exactly turned out to be causing it?

Stuart.

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