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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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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=20
> textproc/bsddiff, textproc/bsdgrep and textproc/bsdsort. These are the=20
> BSD-licensed text processing tools from OpenBSD, as well, but I haven't=20
> looked at sdiff, yet, thus I can only tell about the former 3 ones. If=20
> we change to those, we should make sure, that they are compatible with=20
> the GNU versions as much as they can be. Thus we might need a bit of=20
> feature completion there. For example, we should check if the long=20
> command line options are available there, too. For diff, grep and sort,=20
> there are some of those, but they are undocumented in the manual page,=20
> so we have to complete the manpages, too. Now I'm busy with SoC and=20
> other high priority tasks, but if I have some time, I'll take a look as=20
> I'm also interested in getting these completed.
>=20

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:-)

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Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE

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