From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Oct 15 18:32: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D6E37B401; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:32:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F0E43E7B; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:32:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosehn@rpi.edu) Received: from gilead.netel.rpi.edu (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g9G1W148096612; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:32:01 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:32:00 -0400 Subject: Re: docs/44070: Minor corrections to release notes for 4.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG To: Bruce A Mah From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <11597FB5-E0A7-11D6-96E6-00306576693E@rpi.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bruce Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > The release notes at: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.7R/relnotes-i386.html > > and http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.7R/relnotes-alpha.html > > imply that 'xargs -J' is depreciated. This is not true. It > > does not do the same thing as -I, and therefore it is still > > very useful. It is a freebsd-only option (at least for now), > > but it is not depreciated. > > See for example the commit message for revision 1.16 of src/usr.sbin/ > xargs/xargs.1. I interpeted that to mean "xargs -J is deprecated". Yeah, I remember the commit message going by, and at the time I sent a message off to jmallet pointing out that -J should *not* be depreciated. Also note that the man page was never changed to say -J was depreciated, Juli only made that comment as part of the commit entry. I probably sent that as a private message exchange at the time. I didn't occur to me that someone else would pick up on that comment and assume that -J was officially on track to be depreciated. The -J option is a very useful option which I've always wished for when I am on other platforms, and I was pretty excited when it was added to freebsd. I want to see the other OS's adopt it, instead of us getting rid of it! > > Also, the release notes do not mention some improvements > > to the 'lpc' command. > > At the time, it wasn't clear to me how significant these changes were. > I'm happy to be corrected, but this is why I like to get heads-up > messages (or text or direct commits) from developers regarding changes > they consider to be important. To be honest, I suspect that few people will find those options as attractive as I do. I would not have even mentioned them except that I definitely wanted to say something about xargs, so I also added lpc as long as I was writing a PR. > If you want, I can figure out something to add to -CURRENT's release > notes. Is this important enough to also warrant an entry in the 4.7 > errata? It would be nice enough to add a short blurb to -current wrt the new lpc options. They certainly are not important enough to deserve a special errata entry for 4.7. I do think it would be good to have an errata item on xargs, lest people think they have to start avoiding -J. Probably should check with jmallet just to make sure we're all still on the same wavelength on that. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message