Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 23:41:32 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu (Steve Kargl), Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses Makefile Message-ID: <200209242241.g8OMfWN0081106@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: <mailpost.1032903222.79620@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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> From: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu (Steve Kargl)
> Date: Tue 24 Sep, 2002
> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses Makefile
> If we turn off posix in sort(1) to permit " sort +1", then
> should we add
>
> warnx("The sort +pos -pos syntax is deprecated.");
>
> to educate the masses.
Not without a way to turn off the warning, as in "Yeah, I know my code's
older than some new fangled standard, but I ain't fixing it all right now
and I don't want the system whining at clients running existing releases of
my software; if I expected a leading + in file names in my scripts I've
already protected against it, thank you!".
Cheers,
Mark.
--
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