From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 1 21:04:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D5E16A4DD; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 21:04:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp8.server.rpi.edu (smtp8.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADA8343D45; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 21:04:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp8.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k81L4oXK023046; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:04:50 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <44F8932A.6090806@elischer.org> References: <200608281545.k7SFjn6l063922@lurza.secnetix.de> <44F8932A.6090806@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:04:49 -0400 To: Julian Elischer From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Oliver Fromme , jhb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: suggested addition to 'date' X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:04:58 -0000 At 1:08 PM -0700 9/1/06, Julian Elischer wrote: > >Garance A Drosehn wrote: >>Note that the main objection to this option (at least from my >>point of view) is that date should not be going into filter >>mode. Not ever. Date is a command to set or display dates. >>It is not a command to filter files. 'cat' would be a more >>appropriate place to add this option. > > >well that's your opinion and it's as arbitrary as mine is.. Yes. I am only expressing my opinion, as I am entitled to do. What happens wrt the code in the freebsd repository depends on the combined opinion of members, aka "voting". This is my vote. It is a perfectly good option to have in 'cat', but it seems out-of-place to turn the 'date' command into a filter. Others in the project can express their own votes, whatever those votes may be. If there are a fair number of votes for adding this option to the 'date' command, then certainly I will be happy with that result. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA