From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 24 14:38:04 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 67A5516A468 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:38:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu (server.t-hosting.hu [217.20.133.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E50C713C447 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:38:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEBE59F338A; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:38:02 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at t-hosting.hu Received: from server.t-hosting.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.t-hosting.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Cw2CTQ8eHUom; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:37:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.2.186] (catv-5063f539.catv.broadband.hu [80.99.245.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24AAE9F32FA; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:37:52 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <467E81BC.7060507@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:37:48 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: <20070622210119.GA4186@clamps.exit2shell.com> <467C45C7.6020401@FreeBSD.org> <20070624034649.63ebc0b7.stas@FreeBSD.org> <20070624020734.R17867@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20070624020734.R17867@fledge.watson.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Stanislav Sedov , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Steven Kreuzer Subject: Re: Port of OpenBSD's sdiff 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, 24 Jun 2007 14:38:04 -0000 Robert Watson escribió: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Stanislav Sedov wrote: >> >> Personally, I see no point in adding -- style options, since the >> entire our world build without them. GNU people can always install >> gnu- ports, we just should insure they're posix compatible. >> >> Furthermore, having -- and - style options in one world effectively >> broke BSD's perfect look and feel:-) > > On the other hand -- intentionally breaking scripts that have worked > with FreeBSD for years isn't exactly the best way to make end-users > happy. > How you mean this? The current GNU textproc tools have those -- options. How would that break scripts, then? Personally, I don't need or insist on having -- style options, but currently we have those and people might have got used to them. If we change the available options by just changing to the BSD-licensed ones without a deeper look of their functionality, we might break POLA. Moreover, the BSD-licensed ones have some of those, too as I wrote before, thus we just need to document them in the accompanying manpages. It's strange, but the manpages don't cover the existing long options, maybe the OpenBSD people didn't want people to use them. -- Gabor Kovesdan FreeBSD Volunteer EMAIL: gabor@FreeBSD.org .:|:. gabor@kovesdan.org WEB: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:. http://kovesdan.org