From owner-cvs-all Tue Sep 24 15:43:20 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 7CACA37B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E554343E86 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:43:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 66604 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Sep 2002 22:43:19 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:43:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson To: Peter Wemm Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses Makefile In-Reply-To: <20020924212009.77BDF2A7D6@canning.wemm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Peter Wemm wrote: > "Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 14:05:38 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > > For ports we MUST set _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in the bsd.port.mk > > No, this is the equivalent of sticking our heads in the sand and pretending > that we dont have a problem. The Real World consists of much more than > the ports tree. The problems that the ports tree has are the only indication > that we have about how the rest of the Real World code will fare with > our releases. > > Turn off the silly feature in sort(1) the first place. Let people request > it by setting _POSIX2_VERSION=200112 if they want to sort a filename that > begins with a +. Or, use 'sort ./+file' like they would already have to > do for just about every other unix OS on the planet. > > Cheers, > -Peter Amen, 100% agree. Please do it this way. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message