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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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