Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 15:07:37 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Oleg Moskalenko <oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com> Subject: Re: [HEADS-UP] BSD sort coming to -CURRENT Message-ID: <4FAD0F19.7020704@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4FA940F3.6080907@FreeBSD.org> References: <4FA940F3.6080907@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2012.05.08. 17:51, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Oleg Moskalenko has been working very hard on BSD sort and by now we > think it is compatible with the base version (and has even more > features, the ideas mostly taken from the latest GNU sort) and it is > efficient. I just updated the textproc/bsdsort port to the latest > version so that people can test it and I plan to commit it to HEAD in > some days, for now installed as "bsdsort", leaving GNU sort the > default version. If someone has any objection, please raise it now. > Future plans are to switch the logic and make BSD sort default once it > has undergone enough testing and finally drop GNU sort permanently if > no problems appear. > > Note that the strcoll() and wcscoll() implementations of FreeBSD are > incomplete so neither GNU sort nor the new BSD sort work 100% > correctly with multi-byte locales but once the underlying functions > are implemented, BSD sort will just work fine. As I announced before, today finally I've committed BSD sort to -CURRENT. By default, it will be "bsdsort" and GNU sort will be installed as "sort", like before. If you can, please opt in for the default BSD sort by setting WITH_BSD_SORT, which will cause that BSD sort is installed as "sort" and GNU sort will be "gnusort". If no bugs appear and portmgr can run an exp-run for default BSD sort, I'll switch the logic to a default BSD sort. Gabor
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