On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 12:59 PM Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/7/21 11:14 AM, enh wrote: > > your non-POSIX cut(1) extension covers 80% of the in-the-wild use of awk > anyway > > :-) if you still talk to any of the busybox folks, we should suggest > they copy > > that --- it would be nice for it to be a de facto standard so we can get > it into > > POSIX sometime around the 2040s... (and have made lives better for the > folks who > > don't care about standards and just want to "get things done" in the > intervening > > decades!) > > So now that busybox has merged my patch: > > https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=0068ce2fa0e3 > > Do we we poke coreutils or the austin group next? (Is there a plan _beyond_ > adding it to busybox?) > i'm assuming coreutils... > Possibly we want to wait for a busybox release or two and _then_ poke > coreutils > when versions of busybox with cut -DF show up in Linux distros? (Depends > how > much resistance and bikeshedding we expect from a gnu project.) > ...but, yeah, although i've no experience with coreutils myself i just assumed that it would be an easier conversation after busybox is actually there in all the distros for them to test against. > Rob >
_______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
