Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:53:36 +0200 From: Alexander <freebsd@nagilum.org> To: Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> Cc: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r220250 - in stable/8: bin/test tools/regression/bin/test Message-ID: <20110402115336.37394ztrsha7r58o@cakebox.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinubz%2B00HneNukiuZTeOMXfu0=JtQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <201104011823.p31INiHv055195@svn.freebsd.org> <20110402015552.GA32901@FreeBSD.org> <BANLkTinubz%2B00HneNukiuZTeOMXfu0=JtQ@mail.gmail.com>
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The downside is that one may end up writing scripts on FreeBSD which =20 will unexpectedly break on other Unixes. Alex. ----- Message from delphij@gmail.com --------- Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 00:33:43 -0700 From: Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r220250 - in stable/8: bin/test =20 tools/regression/bin/test To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, =20 src-committers@freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij@freebsd.org>, =20 svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org > 2011/4/1 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>: >> On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 06:23:44PM +0000, Xin LI wrote: >>> =A0 Accept =3D=3D as an alias of =3D which is a popular GNU extension. >>> >>> =A0 This is intentionally undocumented for now since it's not part >>> =A0 of any standard. >> >> I thought general consensus that this change should never be part of >> FreeBSD, not just being undocumented (which, as we all know, is bad >> practice pe se). > > This have been discussed in -standards@ and have been settled for more > than 1 month, there were two developers asked me after the commit but > nobody asked for a revert (so far), so I don't think it's general > consensus that this change should not be part of FreeBSD. Being > undocumented means we do not encourage its use. > > I think there is good reason to add this extension for compatibility > reasons, plus it does not break anything. > > So did I missed some discussion about why it's a bad move? > > Cheers, > -- > Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net > _______________________________________________ > svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-stable-8 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-stable-8-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g" > ----- End message from delphij@gmail.com ----- =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D # _ __ _ __ http://www.nagilum.org/ \n icq://69646724 # # / |/ /__ ____ _(_) /_ ____ _ nagilum@nagilum.org \n +491776461165 # # / / _ `/ _ `/ / / // / ' \ Amiga (68k/PPC): AOS/NetBSD/Linux # # /_/|_/\_,_/\_, /_/_/\_,_/_/_/_/ Mac (PPC): MacOS-X / Linux / MacOS-X # # /___/ x86: FreeBSD/Linux/Solaris/Win2k ARM9: EPOC EV6 # =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ---------------------------------------------------------------- cakebox.homeunix.net - all the machine one needs..
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