I guess that using a not-backward-compatible syntax would make it difficult for some users to accept.
We are going to have a newer 1.7 build soon that supports older pre-POSIX syntax (among other improvements). It is "guarded" by #ifdef. If Gabor decides to eliminate this backward compatibility, he can easily remove -D option from the Makefile. Regards, Oleg -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-po...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-po...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chad Perrin Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 11:15 AM To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT: new BSD-licensed sort available On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:33:06AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Oleg Moskalenko <oleg.moskale...@citrix.com> writes: > > > > Yes, indeed, there was an old sort syntax, where they supported it in > > a form "+POS1 -POS2". It is a non-POSIX obsolete syntax, so we did > > not implement it in the new BSD sort. I can add it, if necessary. > > If anyone asked for my opinion, I'd say that I'd prefer to see this > syntax stamped out instead; it's unnecessary, confusing, and has been > considered obsolete for decades. A quick look over my workstation's > filesystems shows just a few uses: in texconfig, libtool, something in > X11/config, maybe a handful more. > > I'm not sure what the best answer is in practice, but I'm willing to > spend some of my time working on it if that helps. I suspect the "right" answer for the near future would be to eliminate dependence on it wherever you can get such changes accepted by upstream, and support it as a deprecated (perhaps even undocumented) feature in bsdsort just so it's easier to entirely eliminate any dependence on gnusort for purposes of backward compatibility. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
