From owner-cvs-all Tue Sep 24 14: 5:40 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E4837B404; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:05:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82A9243E42; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:05:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69A9D2A7D6; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:05:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , Julian Elischer , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses Makefile In-Reply-To: <5799.1032900752@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:05:38 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020924210538.69A9D2A7D6@canning.wemm.org> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20020924204954.GB60957@nagual.pp.ru>, "Andrey A. Chernov" writes: > >On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 13:39:55 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> > >> This is silly.. the +POS syntax is probably one of the most commonly > >> used syntaxes for sort. > > > >Talk with POSIX people about it. +N is valid filename per POSIX, so old > >syntax can't be preserved. > > Decisions like this should make us reconsider the desirability of > POSIX compliance or even "near-POSIX" compliance. Standards compliance for the sake of standards compliance sake in spite of common practice is utterly the wrong reason. This particular "feature" is going to cause a *huge* amount of pain. I wouldn't be suprised if it costs us anouther 500-1000 unbuldable ports. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message