Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 10:50:51 -0500 From: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Oleg Moskalenko <oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com> Subject: Re: [HEADS-UP] BSD sort coming to -CURRENT Message-ID: <4FAD355B.10900@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4FA940F3.6080907@FreeBSD.org> References: <4FA940F3.6080907@FreeBSD.org>
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Oleg and Gabor; Awesome! Kudos and huge thanks for working on this!! Pedro. On 05/08/12 10:51, 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. > > Gabor > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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