Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:47:58 -0400 From: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A new sort utility Message-ID: <3F666BCE.6080203@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <p05210600bb8c0842afde@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20030915105356.GA11926@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <p05210600bb8c0842afde@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 8:53 PM +1000 9/15/03, Tim Robbins wrote: > >> Comments/patches are welcome. As the "History" suggestion >> of the manual page suggests, my plan is to get this in to >> FreeBSD 6, along with replacements for some other GNU tools. > > Might we put this in freebsd-current (5.x), but under some > other name? sortbsd, or something? Why would you want to do that? Unless the performance difference is huge, I don't see the problem. Since the number of people that really that extra 10% (or whatever) of speed (for sort) is small, I would suggest the reverse. Replace the current sort with the BSD licensed version, and move the current one to a port "gnu-sort", or whatever. I suddenly feel the need to go build a bikeshed. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com
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