Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:42:23 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer@exit2shell.com> Subject: Re: Port of OpenBSD's sdiff Message-ID: <20070625114124.E2623@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <467E81BC.7060507@FreeBSD.org> References: <20070622210119.GA4186@clamps.exit2shell.com> <467C45C7.6020401@FreeBSD.org> <20070624034649.63ebc0b7.stas@FreeBSD.org> <20070624020734.R17867@fledge.watson.org> <467E81BC.7060507@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > Robert Watson escribió: >> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Stanislav Sedov wrote: >>> >>> 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. >> > How you mean this? The current GNU textproc tools have those -- options. How > would that break scripts, then? > > Personally, I don't need or insist on having -- style options, but currently > we have those and people might have got used to them. If we change the > available options by just changing to the BSD-licensed ones without a deeper > look of their functionality, we might break POLA. > > Moreover, the BSD-licensed ones have some of those, too as I wrote before, > thus we just need to document them in the accompanying manpages. It's > strange, but the manpages don't cover the existing long options, maybe the > OpenBSD people didn't want people to use them. Ah, OK -- I read the e-mail as stating that the options didn't exit in the OpenBSD tools, yet proposing moving to them, and hence was concerned about compatibility with existing scripts. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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