It seems to me that on a GNU system, the sorted output produced by
`ls' should also always be producible by passing the names to be
sorted through `sort'. It should be, in principle, possible to
implement GNU `ls' as a program that pipes its output through GNU
`sort'.
In the arch revision control system project, we are interested in
sorting multi-level version numbers. For example, this output is
sorted:
1.2
1.2.1
1.22
1.123
GNU `ls' has the ability to sort filenames containing version numbers
of those forms. GNU `sort' does not.
What do the GNU textutils and GNU fileutils maintainers think of the
idea of:
1) nailing down the syntax and sort order of version numbers
in a standard that applies across GNU utils
2) adding to `sort' an option that allows a field to be a version
number
3) making sure that `ls' and `sort' both adhere to the standard in (1)
We (the `arch' project) may or may not have the manpower to produce
such a patch -- but before we decide if we do, we're wondering if you
would accept it.
-t
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