Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:01:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who broke sort(1) ? Message-ID: <200209242101.g8OL1TVd090894@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020924203011.5EF752A7D6@canning.wemm.org> References: <20020923122935.A6108@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20020924203011.5EF752A7D6@canning.wemm.org>
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<<On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:30:11 -0700, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> said: > Oh man, this is going to suck. There are thousands and thousands of third > party scripts that use +n syntax. > I am most unhappy with this change. :-( The time to complain about it was back in 1992when the old syntax was labeled ``deprecated'' by P1003.2, or in 1999 when the revision cycle was just heating up. Old deprecated features were automatically dropped leading up to the 2001 revision, unless someone could make a case for their retention. That case wasn't made in the case of `sort', and as a result the Standard no longer permits the old syntax. It's not like people didn't have nine years' advance warning to fix their scripts. FreeBSD supported `-k' in 1.0; see <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/gnu/usr.bin/sort/Attic/sort.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup>. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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