From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 19:53:51 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C14EF106566B; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:53:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 272DC8FC14; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:53:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjc3 with SMTP id jc3so3306077bkc.13 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:53:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=Vg/xjY7wpZve6gNEpApnyp3xLzWJq7A70x7ErdACMSM=; b=TUT3HCSfaC4i98t2B8lBLgsbPcQFoEWbd5qJ2BFMVtThyXp2nd3qWMWLD1sGAD/uKI N5dasDj7nnBzUzwHRGjy9MkpbHdQETOxPFEGAgy3mUb5MTCbpKDm+o9VCOu6g7e3RcxY KUNbfuk8S3eLwSuXVf5HXoERsuWPu2e2giiHCKyum7inAvBR2aWeDaiIGFFbfhpJXOsX CWOUZh0hBb4nbTQIXSHq29MoDkUEmawELKWrCNVc+3jNgd1SW2cjLWC47bhYLZyATtLr rK0ZPtjq0vDe+XwKIZRPiiJe7rfyGdhSwgqi/caxGF5T6hyNojMfV2k8XZnDbtX6K7OQ 8RtQ== Received: by 10.205.137.15 with SMTP id im15mr2982048bkc.54.1331841230019; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:53:50 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: utisoft@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.202.142 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:50:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <44pqcd8yhd.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <4F60C059.7060904@FreeBSD.org> <44pqcd8yhd.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> From: Chris Rees Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:50:29 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: YaqJnyCjORacH-8TbzYcQx7FNdw Message-ID: To: Lowell Gilbert Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Oleg Moskalenko , Gabor Kovesdan , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT: new BSD-licensed sort available X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:53:51 -0000 On 15 March 2012 19:18, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Gabor Kovesdan writes: > >> some time ago I started writing a BSDL sort variant from scratch since >> the OpenBSD version did not support multibyte locales and was hard to >> modify. The development was a bit stalled but recently, Oleg >> Moskalenko showed interest in continuing >> this version and he has made a very good job on this BSD sort >> variant. Now it is compatible with the base version of GNU sort but >> the performance in most cases (string sort and -n) is quite behind GNU >> sort (although with -g it is about *4 times* faster). Oleg is still >> working on optimizing the code and the long-term plan is to drop GNU >> sort once this variant is good enough to replace it. For now, it is >> only available in Ports Collection as textproc/bsdsort but if there is >> no objection or any serious bug report I plan to add it to base >> installed as bsdsort, being GNU sort still the default sort until it >> proves that we can safely drop GNU sort. If you are interested in this >> sort utility, could you please try the port and report us any issue >> that you experience? > > portsdb(1) (from portupgrade) doesn't seem to like it; > apparently it is missing a '-2' option, which I haven't > tracked down yet... Fails with gnusort too anyway: [crees@pegasus]~% gsort -2 gsort: invalid option -- '2' Try `gsort --help' for more information. [crees@pegasus]~% Chris