Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:18:06 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Oleg Moskalenko <oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CFT: new BSD-licensed sort available Message-ID: <44pqcd8yhd.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <4F60C059.7060904@FreeBSD.org> (Gabor Kovesdan's message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:59:21 %2B0100") References: <4F60C059.7060904@FreeBSD.org>
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Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> writes: > some time ago I started writing a BSDL sort variant from scratch since > the OpenBSD version did not support multibyte locales and was hard to > modify. The development was a bit stalled but recently, Oleg > Moskalenko <oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com> showed interest in continuing > this version and he has made a very good job on this BSD sort > variant. Now it is compatible with the base version of GNU sort but > the performance in most cases (string sort and -n) is quite behind GNU > sort (although with -g it is about *4 times* faster). Oleg is still > working on optimizing the code and the long-term plan is to drop GNU > sort once this variant is good enough to replace it. For now, it is > only available in Ports Collection as textproc/bsdsort but if there is > no objection or any serious bug report I plan to add it to base > installed as bsdsort, being GNU sort still the default sort until it > proves that we can safely drop GNU sort. If you are interested in this > sort utility, could you please try the port and report us any issue > that you experience? portsdb(1) (from portupgrade) doesn't seem to like it; apparently it is missing a '-2' option, which I haven't tracked down yet...
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