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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:55:43 +0200
From:      =?UTF-8?Q?Stefan_E=c3=9fer?= <st_esser@t-online.de>
To:        Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@freebsd.org>, Ravi Pokala <rpokala@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, =?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
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Am 30.07.20 um 18:45 schrieb Jessica Clarke:
> On 30 Jul 2020, at 17:40, Ravi Pokala <rpokala@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: <owner-src-committers@freebsd.org> on behalf of Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@freebsd.org>
>> Date: 2020-07-30, Thursday at 09:35
>> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
>> Cc: Stefan Eßer <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
>>
>>    On 30 Jul 2020, at 17:31, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>>    `alias bc='bc -q'` / `alias bc bc -q` and preserve your inner zen? :)
>>
>>    Jess
>>
>> I was actually about to complain about the new `dc' not exiting after evaluating a '-e' expression, without an explicit 'q'. But then I noticed the "DC_EXPR_EXIT" envvar, which restores the desired behavior. That lead me to discover "DC_ENV_ARGS" and, correspondingly, "BC_ENV_ARGS"; that last one would be helpful here.
> 
> That does feel like the wrong default; even GNU dc doesn't do that, and
> the principle of least surprise would suggest exiting is the right
> thing to do. It's also unlikely you want to evaluate something and then
> use it interactively.

Interesting observation - I've got to admit that I hardly ever use dc
(despite being the owner of a collection of HP UPN calculators ;-) ).

I'll forward this to the author of this bc/dc and I'm sure he will
offer a patched version (unless there are strong reasons for the
current behavior, e.g. compatibility with another dc ...)

Regards, STefan



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