Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:53:36 +0200 From: Alexander <freebsd@nagilum.org> To: Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> Cc: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r220250 - in stable/8: bin/test tools/regression/bin/test Message-ID: <20110402115336.37394ztrsha7r58o@cakebox.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinubz%2B00HneNukiuZTeOMXfu0=JtQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <201104011823.p31INiHv055195@svn.freebsd.org> <20110402015552.GA32901@FreeBSD.org> <BANLkTinubz%2B00HneNukiuZTeOMXfu0=JtQ@mail.gmail.com>
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The downside is that one may end up writing scripts on FreeBSD which =20
will unexpectedly break on other Unixes.
Alex.
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Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 00:33:43 -0700
From: Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r220250 - in stable/8: bin/test =20
tools/regression/bin/test
To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, =20
src-committers@freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org>, =20
svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org
> 2011/4/1 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>:
>> On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 06:23:44PM +0000, Xin LI wrote:
>>> =A0 Accept =3D=3D as an alias of =3D which is a popular GNU extension.
>>>
>>> =A0 This is intentionally undocumented for now since it's not part
>>> =A0 of any standard.
>>
>> I thought general consensus that this change should never be part of
>> FreeBSD, not just being undocumented (which, as we all know, is bad
>> practice pe se).
>
> This have been discussed in -standards@ and have been settled for more
> than 1 month, there were two developers asked me after the commit but
> nobody asked for a revert (so far), so I don't think it's general
> consensus that this change should not be part of FreeBSD. Being
> undocumented means we do not encourage its use.
>
> I think there is good reason to add this extension for compatibility
> reasons, plus it does not break anything.
>
> So did I missed some discussion about why it's a bad move?
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net
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