From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 25 00:57:34 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 68D5316A473 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:57:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org (tarsier.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2294D13C45D for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:57:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@delphij.net) Received: from localhost (tarsier.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD6DEB28B4; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:57:33 +0800 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at geekcn.org Received: from tarsier.geekcn.org ([210.51.165.229]) by localhost (mail.geekcn.org [210.51.165.229]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ST3JEgyzHHlv; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:57:31 +0800 (CST) Received: from charlie.delphij.net (unknown [221.219.158.154]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tarsier.geekcn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE4BEB12F6; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:57:31 +0800 (CST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=default; d=delphij.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject: references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ERIfVm5SwmxSARHvJkPfWA2LSvNcxMxzHTrsju+vMt9HlV/e6NDbgDUoIQMZACJGg 8Y8fVhIKdQ79KfzrTRJrQ== Message-ID: <467F12FA.8070406@delphij.net> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:57:30 +0800 From: Xin LI User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070615) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Kreuzer References: <20070622210119.GA4186@clamps.exit2shell.com> In-Reply-To: <20070622210119.GA4186@clamps.exit2shell.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 OpenPGP: url=http://www.delphij.net/delphij.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:57:34 -0000 Steven Kreuzer wrote: > Greetings- > > OpenBSD includes a version of sdiff released to the public domain. > In a quest to remove as much GPL code from FreeBSD as possible, I > ported it over. > > If you want to try it out, You can download the source at > http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer/code/sdiff.tar.gz > > I had a few people who are part of the NYC BSD Users Group beta > test it for me and so far no one has encountered any problems so > I thought I would pass it along to see if it would be considered > as a replacement for the GNU version. > > The contents of the tarball is a shar archive which extracts the > code in usr/src/usr.bin/sdiff and a patch the adds adds "sdiff" > to SUBDIR in the Makefile in usr.bin and removes "sdiff" from the > Makefile in gnu/usr.bin > > Questions, comments and criticisms are all welcome. Nice work! I will take some time to compare it with the current GNU implementation and see if we are lack of some functionalities and implement if need. Looking forward to see this once we have released 7.0-R :-) Cheers,