Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:57:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> Cc: tjr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A new sort utility Message-ID: <20030915185643.I13557@znfgre.qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <3F666BCE.6080203@mindspring.com> References: <20030915105356.GA11926@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <p05210600bb8c0842afde@[128.113.24.47]> <3F666BCE.6080203@mindspring.com>
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Richard Coleman wrote:
> Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > At 8:53 PM +1000 9/15/03, Tim Robbins wrote:
> >
> >> Comments/patches are welcome. As the "History" suggestion
> >> of the manual page suggests, my plan is to get this in to
> >> FreeBSD 6, along with replacements for some other GNU tools.
> >
> > Might we put this in freebsd-current (5.x), but under some
> > other name? sortbsd, or something?
>
> Why would you want to do that? Unless the performance difference is
> huge, I don't see the problem.
>
> Since the number of people that really that extra 10% (or whatever) of
> speed (for sort) is small, I would suggest the reverse. Replace the
> current sort with the BSD licensed version, and move the current one to
> a port "gnu-sort", or whatever.
This was exactly what I was thinking. Tim, can you mail -arch with this
proposal?
Doug
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