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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 2020 09:40:36 -0700
From:      Ravi Pokala <rpokala@freebsd.org>
To:        Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@freebsd.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Stefan =?UTF-8?B?RcOfZXI=?= <se@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r363091 - in head/contrib/bc: . include manuals src tests tests/bc
Message-ID:  <D7D50B4C-DECA-46E4-A084-6E9364DB3647@panasas.com>
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-----Original Message-----
From: <owner-src-committers@freebsd.org> on behalf of Jessica Clarke <jrtc2=
7@freebsd.org>
Date: 2020-07-30, Thursday at 09:35
To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Stefan E=C3=9Fer <se@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.o=
rg>, <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r363091 - in head/contrib/bc: . include manuals sr=
c tests tests/bc

    On 30 Jul 2020, at 17:31, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
    > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 05:28:19PM +0100, Jessica Clarke wrote:
    >> On 30 Jul 2020, at 17:20, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrot=
e:
    >>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 07:33:19AM +0000, Stefan E=C3=9Fer wrote:
    >>>> Author: se
    >>>> Date: Sat Jul 11 07:33:18 2020
    >>>> New Revision: 363091
    >>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/363091
    >>>>=20
    >>>> Log:
    >>>> Update to version 3.1.3
    >>>>=20
    >>> Jumping on that commit, since the switch from our previous bc.
    >>>=20
    >>> The output of the interactive bc has changed, the previous version =
had a clean
    >>> UI, the new version "pollutes" the output with plenty of lines abou=
t the
    >>> copyright:
    >>>=20
    >>> =3D=3D=3D=3D
    >>> Copyright (c) 2018-2020 Gavin D. Howard and contributors
    >>> Report bugs at: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc
    >>>=20
    >>> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
    >>> =3D=3D=3D=3D
    >>>=20
    >>> Imagine if all programs where doing that, it would be painful, do y=
ou think
    >>> upstream can be convinced to remove those lines?
    >>>=20
    >>> I no the GNU version also has the same polluted output which was on=
e of the
    >>> reason I was happy with out previous version of bc.
    >>=20
    >> By default both will print such a banner if and only if being called
    >> interactively. You can disable the banner explicitly with -q/--quiet
    >> for both GNU bc and this bc. I agree it's a bit noisy and would be
    >> nicer to not have that printed, but it's not without precedent for
    >> REPL-like things.
    >=20
    > Yes it is not without precedent for REPL-like things, still I dislike=
 this and
    > would be happy to get bc interactive be as nice as the previous one w=
e had :)
    >=20
    > If not I will deal with it and just yell internally each time I run i=
t :D

    `alias bc=3D'bc -q'` / `alias bc bc -q` and preserve your inner zen? :)

    Jess

I was actually about to complain about the new `dc' not exiting after evalu=
ating a '-e' expression, without an explicit 'q'. But then I noticed the "DC=
_EXPR_EXIT" envvar, which restores the desired behavior. That lead me to dis=
cover "DC_ENV_ARGS" and, correspondingly, "BC_ENV_ARGS"; that last one would=
 be helpful here.

Thanks,

Ravi (rpokala@)





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