From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 24 01:08:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02AC16A41F for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:08:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6CE513C465 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:08:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B554767C; Sat, 23 Jun 2007 21:08:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:08:39 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Stanislav Sedov In-Reply-To: <20070624034649.63ebc0b7.stas@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: <20070624020734.R17867@fledge.watson.org> References: <20070622210119.GA4186@clamps.exit2shell.com> <467C45C7.6020401@FreeBSD.org> <20070624034649.63ebc0b7.stas@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Gabor Kovesdan , Steven Kreuzer Subject: Re: Port of OpenBSD's sdiff X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:08:39 -0000 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