find -lname and -ilname implemented

[Mike Meyer]

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:49:13 -0600 Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:19:37PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:00:47 -0700 (MST) "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> > While I understand that it's easier to fix the BSD find, have you
> > tried filing bug reports with patches for the tools that assume GNU
> > find? That would help people outside the BSD community as well.
> I think you may underestimate the value of compatibility. For example, I
> think a lot of the successes bsdtar is having are due to the fact that
> it's as much of a dropin replacement for gnutar is possible.  If we want
> to increase our market share one of the ways we can do it is to make
> things easier for people who are interested in adopting our technologies
> for what ever reason.  If we can spend a few KB here and there to make
> their transition easier, I think it's well worth it.

If anything, what I'm miss-estimating is the value of a quality
implementation, and ranking it to high. I have a long history of
choosing things based on technical excellence rather than popularity,
and the closet full of orphans to prove it.

In particular, given the choice between a tool becoming useless
because it's become an unsupported orphan, or having it become useless
because the developers started choosing popularity over quality (and
I've seen that happen as well), I'll take the former every time.

     <mike
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