Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 17:51:15 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Oleg Moskalenko <oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com> Subject: [HEADS-UP] BSD sort coming to -CURRENT Message-ID: <4FA940F3.6080907@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi Folks, Oleg Moskalenko has been working very hard on BSD sort and by now we think it is compatible with the base version (and has even more features, the ideas mostly taken from the latest GNU sort) and it is efficient. I just updated the textproc/bsdsort port to the latest version so that people can test it and I plan to commit it to HEAD in some days, for now installed as "bsdsort", leaving GNU sort the default version. If someone has any objection, please raise it now. Future plans are to switch the logic and make BSD sort default once it has undergone enough testing and finally drop GNU sort permanently if no problems appear. Note that the strcoll() and wcscoll() implementations of FreeBSD are incomplete so neither GNU sort nor the new BSD sort work 100% correctly with multi-byte locales but once the underlying functions are implemented, BSD sort will just work fine. Gabor
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