Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:46:49 +0400 From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer@exit2shell.com> Subject: Re: Port of OpenBSD's sdiff Message-ID: <20070624034649.63ebc0b7.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <467C45C7.6020401@FreeBSD.org> References: <20070622210119.GA4186@clamps.exit2shell.com> <467C45C7.6020401@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:57:27 +0200 Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> mentioned: > these are very good news! You might also want to take a look at > textproc/bsddiff, textproc/bsdgrep and textproc/bsdsort. These are the > BSD-licensed text processing tools from OpenBSD, as well, but I haven't > looked at sdiff, yet, thus I can only tell about the former 3 ones. If > we change to those, we should make sure, that they are compatible with > the GNU versions as much as they can be. Thus we might need a bit of > feature completion there. For example, we should check if the long > command line options are available there, too. For diff, grep and sort, > there are some of those, but they are undocumented in the manual page, > so we have to complete the manpages, too. Now I'm busy with SoC and > other high priority tasks, but if I have some time, I'll take a look as > I'm also interested in getting these completed. > Personally, I see no point in adding -- style options, since the entire our world build without them. GNU people can always install gnu- ports, we just should insure they're posix compatible. Furthermore, having -- and - style options in one world effectively broke BSD's perfect look and feel:-) -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGfbDvK/VZk+smlYERAh8CAJ99iaVH4J0ezoDOhOXXOD1/wDl0DwCfYgh4 GAXLtZvm5m3zKJx2un39s/4= =JWWa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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