From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 20:47:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3437016A4B3 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:47:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59C7843FBF for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:47:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8G3kwnA007216; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:46:58 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3F666BCE.6080203@mindspring.com> References: <20030915105356.GA11926@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <3F666BCE.6080203@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:46:57 -0400 To: richardcoleman@mindspring.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: A new sort utility X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 03:47:01 -0000 At 9:47 PM -0400 9/15/03, 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? Just so we could have it in 5.x, instead of the stated plan of waiting until 6.x. I do not feel strongly about it, other than to say that it'd be nice if this was part of 5.x, and I don't know if we want to switch to rewrite of 'sort' at this point in 5.x. *Someday* we've got to stop dropping in major changes to 5.x, and get serious about releasing it as -stable so we can start on 6.x-current. Just my 2 cents. I don't feel strongly about it. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu