From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 25 14:24:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19DE937B401 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clover.kientzle.com (user-112uh9a.biz.mindspring.com [66.47.69.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E2643E75 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:24:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kientzle@acm.org) Received: from acm.org (c43 [66.47.69.43]) by clover.kientzle.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g8PLOcW32690 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:24:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kientzle@acm.org) Message-ID: <3D922996.5000902@acm.org> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:24:38 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle Reply-To: kientzle@acm.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011206 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who broke sort(1) ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One possible solution to the sort problem: * Continue to accept the old syntax for now, but add a warning message, something like: "Warning: sort +N is deprecated, use -k instead." * After a year, drop support for the old syntax. After staring at warning messages for a year, few people will be able to claim ignorance. The messages will serve both to advertise the change and to flag those scripts that rely on the old syntax. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message