civileme wrote: > > Many people have written to the expert list or to bugzilla witha script that > worked fine in 7.2 and broke in 8.0 > > Their contention is that the script programs, (grep or sed or gettext, for > example) must be broken in 8.0 because their scripts work in 7.2. > > Sorry folks, time to sharpen your reading skills and take a look at POSIX. > > In every case I have looked at, the scripts were written non-portably and > failed because locale-sensitive (as required by POSIX) scripting programs > replaced the older ones, which were not POSIX compliant. > > As we move the distro toward compliance with LSB standards, we are seeing > more and more complaints that we have a lack of standards. > > Standards mean predictable behavior for those who have a knowledge of what > the standards are, and how they work. For everyone else, learning by > tinkering, the standards mean _change_ which is likely to break a few scripts. > > If you have any doubts about this, start here: > > http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1093&lang=en > > Remember what the charities say: Reading is Fundamental. > > Civileme LOL, Moving from old "standards" toward new "standards" that comply with current "standards"(POSIX), indicates that, in the beginning, we were not really using "standards", or they were "standards" of an arbitrary nature--which is an oxymorone in itself.... Sorry, I just could not help myself. Thanks civileme drjung
