Re: OpenBSD sdiff Question

2008-03-17 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 17), Steven Kreuzer said: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:29:19PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 03:21:01PM -0700, Bert JW Regeer wrote: Even if BSD has no tradition to keep a separate program version, it is still very handy to be able to give

Re: OpenBSD sdiff Question

2008-03-17 Thread Steven Kreuzer
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:29:19PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 03:21:01PM -0700, Bert JW Regeer wrote: Even if BSD has no tradition to keep a separate program version, it is still very handy to be able to give this data to other developers if something is failing.

Re: OpenBSD sdiff Question

2008-03-17 Thread Bert JW Regeer
On Mar 15, 2008, at 23:29 , David O'Brien wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 03:21:01PM -0700, Bert JW Regeer wrote: Even if BSD has no tradition to keep a separate program version, it is still very handy to be able to give this data to other developers if something is failing. $ ident

Re: OpenBSD sdiff Question

2008-03-16 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:14:04PM -0400, Steven Kreuzer wrote: I achieve 100% compatability with the GNU version, I need to add -v/--version and the issue I ran into is that since this program would become part of the base os, what exactly should be displayed. I see no reason you need to be

Re: OpenBSD sdiff Question

2008-03-16 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 03:21:01PM -0700, Bert JW Regeer wrote: Even if BSD has no tradition to keep a separate program version, it is still very handy to be able to give this data to other developers if something is failing. $ ident failing-binary is the output that means something. A

Re: OpenBSD sdiff Question

2008-03-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 03:21:01PM -0700, Bert JW Regeer wrote: Even if BSD has no tradition to keep a separate program version, it is still very handy to be able to give this data to other developers if something is failing. Programs that don't have a -v or --version switch are frustrating to

Re: OpenBSD sdiff Question

2008-03-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mar 14, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Steven Kreuzer wrote: Greetings- I am currently working on replacing the GNU version of sdiff with a version of sdiff that was released into the public domain and is used in OpenBSD Xin LI has been guiding me along with the project and he suggested I post

Re: OpenBSD sdiff Question

2008-03-15 Thread Stanislav Sedov
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:14:04PM -0400 Steven Kreuzer mentioned: Greetings- I am currently working on replacing the GNU version of sdiff with a version of sdiff that was released into the public domain and is used in OpenBSD Xin LI has been guiding me along with the project and he

Re: OpenBSD sdiff Question

2008-03-15 Thread Bert JW Regeer
On Mar 15, 2008, at 06:59 , Stanislav Sedov wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:14:04PM -0400 Steven Kreuzer mentioned: [...] For reference: $ sdiff -v sdiff (GNU diffutils) 2.8.7 Written by Thomas Lord. Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source

OpenBSD sdiff Question

2008-03-14 Thread Steven Kreuzer
Greetings- I am currently working on replacing the GNU version of sdiff with a version of sdiff that was released into the public domain and is used in OpenBSD Xin LI has been guiding me along with the project and he suggested I post here to see what you guys think. I achieve 100% compatability