From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jun 16 19:28:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA18033 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:28:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from titus.stade.co.uk (root@stade.demon.co.uk [158.152.29.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA18012 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 19:27:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aw1@titus.stade.co.uk) Received: (from aw1@localhost) by titus.stade.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.3) id BAA02559; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 01:51:36 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19980617015136.D29516@stade.co.uk> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 01:51:36 +0100 From: Adrian Wontroba To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/6950 Reply-To: aw1@stade.co.uk Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <199806161923.MAA27001@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199806161923.MAA27001@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Matthew Hunt on Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 12:23:06PM -0700 Organization: Stade Computers Ltd, UK X-Phone: +(44) 121 681 6677 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 12:23:06PM -0700, Matthew Hunt wrote: > Synopsis: new port, GNU textutils > > Is there some blindingly obvious reason why this has seemingly > > never been done before? > My guess: These utilities are most often used in scripting, and the > enhancements found in the GNU set of tools do not outweigh the need to > have the tools installed; I suspect most people would instead code > for the functionality subset that is available on the most platforms. A good point. The only ones I routinely use interactively are gfmt (slightly better formatting) and gtail -f to watch the end of multiple files. I have been burnt in the past with software which assumes that the standard versions are the GNU ones. I think that smartlist (the mailing list add-on for procmail) used to do this. -- Adrian Wontroba, Stade Computers Limited. phone: (+44) 121 681 6677 Mail info@accu.org for information about the Association of C and C++ Users or see To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message