Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:51:58 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Stefan_E=c3=9fer?= <st_esser@t-online.de> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@freebsd.org> Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Stefan_E=c3=9fer?= <se@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r363091 - in head/contrib/bc: . include manuals src tests tests/bc Message-ID: <7f89d655-eeaf-beca-5531-77da2b790c01@t-online.de> In-Reply-To: <20200730163154.a4d7672xsugkhmxq@ivaldir.net> References: <202007110733.06B7XJrp033777@repo.freebsd.org> <20200730162009.rnjs6l5rjqsoiqpq@ivaldir.net> <DECD68BB-F720-4CA1-A774-31A4307B24B9@freebsd.org> <20200730163154.a4d7672xsugkhmxq@ivaldir.net>
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Am 30.07.20 um 18:31 schrieb Baptiste Daroussin: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 05:28:19PM +0100, Jessica Clarke wrote: >> On 30 Jul 2020, at 17:20, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 07:33:19AM +0000, Stefan Eßer wrote: >>>> Author: se >>>> Date: Sat Jul 11 07:33:18 2020 >>>> New Revision: 363091 >>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/363091 >>>> >>>> Log: >>>> Update to version 3.1.3 >>>> >>> Jumping on that commit, since the switch from our previous bc. >>> >>> The output of the interactive bc has changed, the previous version had a clean >>> UI, the new version "pollutes" the output with plenty of lines about the >>> copyright: >>> >>> ==== >>> Copyright (c) 2018-2020 Gavin D. Howard and contributors >>> Report bugs at: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc >>> >>> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. >>> ==== >>> >>> Imagine if all programs where doing that, it would be painful, do you think >>> upstream can be convinced to remove those lines? >>> >>> I no the GNU version also has the same polluted output which was one of the >>> reason I was happy with out previous version of bc. >> >> By default both will print such a banner if and only if being called >> interactively. You can disable the banner explicitly with -q/--quiet >> for both GNU bc and this bc. I agree it's a bit noisy and would be >> nicer to not have that printed, but it's not without precedent for >> REPL-like things. > > Yes it is not without precedent for REPL-like things, still I dislike this and > would be happy to get bc interactive be as nice as the previous one we had :) > > If not I will deal with it and just yell internally each time I run it :D I'll forward this thread to the author - had already stated similar thought to him for consideration. Is very interested to prevent forks of his software - although not forbidden by the license - but he wants to keep his sources as the official and "clean" upstream for other projects. My guess is that he'll add a compile time switch to his version that will be added to our usr.bin Makefile and will suppress the start-up message in our base system version. (I'll keep the port version as is unless there is a strong preference to suppress it also in the port). I'd expect it to take a few days (since he only tags new versions after running a fuzzer for a few days if non-trivial changes have been performed and I know he improved something in the interpreter without publishing it, yet) ... Regards, STefan
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