Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:08:39 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>, Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer@exit2shell.com> Subject: Re: Port of OpenBSD's sdiff Message-ID: <20070624020734.R17867@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20070624034649.63ebc0b7.stas@FreeBSD.org> References: <20070622210119.GA4186@clamps.exit2shell.com> <467C45C7.6020401@FreeBSD.org> <20070624034649.63ebc0b7.stas@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Stanislav Sedov wrote: >> these are very good news! You might also want to take a look at >> textproc/bsddiff, textproc/bsdgrep and textproc/bsdsort. These are the >> BSD-licensed text processing tools from OpenBSD, as well, but I haven't >> looked at sdiff, yet, thus I can only tell about the former 3 ones. If we >> change to those, we should make sure, that they are compatible with the GNU >> versions as much as they can be. Thus we might need a bit of feature >> completion there. For example, we should check if the long command line >> options are available there, too. For diff, grep and sort, there are some >> of those, but they are undocumented in the manual page, so we have to >> complete the manpages, too. Now I'm busy with SoC and other high priority >> tasks, but if I have some time, I'll take a look as I'm also interested in >> getting these completed. >> > > Personally, I see no point in adding -- style options, since the entire our > world build without them. GNU people can always install gnu- ports, we just > should insure they're posix compatible. > > Furthermore, having -- and - style options in one world effectively broke > BSD's perfect look and feel:-) On the other hand -- intentionally breaking scripts that have worked with FreeBSD for years isn't exactly the best way to make end-users happy. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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