From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 24 00:15:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3ECA16A468 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:15:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stas@FreeBSD.org) Received: from com1.ht-systems.ru (com1.ht-systems.ru [83.97.104.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D4F313C448 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:15:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stas@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [85.21.245.235] (helo=phonon.SpringDaemons.com) by com1.ht-systems.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I2FMU-0008FS-3j; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:49:50 +0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phonon.SpringDaemons.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 0EBDD11403; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:46:56 +0400 (MSD) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:46:49 +0400 From: Stanislav Sedov To: Gabor Kovesdan Message-Id: <20070624034649.63ebc0b7.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <467C45C7.6020401@FreeBSD.org> References: <20070622210119.GA4186@clamps.exit2shell.com> <467C45C7.6020401@FreeBSD.org> Organization: The FreeBSD Project X-Mailer: carrier-pigeon X-Voice: +7 916 849 20 23 X-XMPP: ssedov@jabber.ru X-ICQ: 208105021 X-Yahoo: stanislav_sedov X-PGP-Fingerprint: F21E D6CC 5626 9609 6CE2 A385 2BF5 5993 EB26 9581 X-University: MEPhI Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA1"; boundary="Signature=_Sun__24_Jun_2007_03_46_49_+0400_g5fJQJdTz=k2fq6S" X-Spam-Flag: SKIP X-Spam-Yversion: Spamooborona 1.6.0 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Steven Kreuzer Subject: Re: Port of OpenBSD's sdiff X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:15:47 -0000 --Signature=_Sun__24_Jun_2007_03_46_49_+0400_g5fJQJdTz=k2fq6S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 23:57:27 +0200 Gabor Kovesdan 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:-) --=20 Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE --Signature=_Sun__24_Jun_2007_03_46_49_+0400_g5fJQJdTz=k2fq6S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGfbDvK/VZk+smlYERAh8CAJ99iaVH4J0ezoDOhOXXOD1/wDl0DwCfYgh4 GAXLtZvm5m3zKJx2un39s/4= =JWWa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Sun__24_Jun_2007_03_46_49_+0400_g5fJQJdTz=k2fq6S--