From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 18 23:16:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E49106564A; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:16:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from server.mypc.hu (server.mypc.hu [87.229.73.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A6088FC12; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:16:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.mypc.hu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.mypc.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39CAF14E706C; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:16:04 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at server.mypc.hu Received: from server.mypc.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by server.mypc.hu (server.mypc.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id llMVpwxgSK4M; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:16:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.117] (catv-80-98-232-12.catv.broadband.hu [80.98.232.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by server.mypc.hu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9DB7014E6FCA; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:16:03 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4F666CB3.9050107@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:16:03 +0100 From: Gabor Kovesdan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0a2) Gecko/20120226 Thunderbird/12.0a2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Chadd References: <4F60C059.7060904@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Oleg Moskalenko , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT: new BSD-licensed sort available 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: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:16:05 -0000 On 2012.03.14. 22:10, Adrian Chadd wrote: > So you could intall gnusort, bsdsort, and then some config file would > determine which was used. > > 'sort' would then be a symlink to said magic program, that'd look at > its argv[0], look at the contents of that file, and exec() the right > one. I prefer simplicity. And GNU sort should go as soon as BSD sort is good enough to replace it. If you check the wiki, we have set a goal for 10.X, which is the GPL-free base system. I think it is possible and I hope we can achieve it. Gabor