svn commit: r220250 - in stable/8: bin/test tools/regression/bin/test

[Xin LI]

2011/4/2 Alexander <freebsd at nagilum.org>:
> The downside is that one may end up writing scripts on FreeBSD which will
> unexpectedly break on other Unixes.

Do we consider having someone else's script 'unexpectedly' break on
FreeBSD as a better thing then?

I think if we want FreeBSD to serve as a standard validator, it's
better to hide such behavior under things like a POSIXLY_CORRECT
umbrella.

> ----- Message from delphij at gmail.com ---------
>    Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 00:33:43 -0700
>    From: Xin LI <delphij at gmail.com>
>  Subject: Re: svn commit: r220250 - in stable/8: bin/test
> tools/regression/bin/test
>      To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>
>      Cc: svn-src-stable at freebsd.org, svn-src-all at freebsd.org,
> src-committers at freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij at freebsd.org>,
> svn-src-stable-8 at freebsd.org
>
>
>> 2011/4/1 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 06:23:44PM +0000, Xin LI wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Accept == as an alias of = which is a popular GNU extension.
>>>>
>>>>   This is intentionally undocumented for now since it's not part
>>>>   of any standard.
>>>
>>> I thought general consensus that this change should never be part of
>>> FreeBSD, not just being undocumented (which, as we all know, is bad
>>> practice pe se).
>>
>> This have been discussed in -standards@ and have been settled for more
>> than 1 month, there were two developers asked me after the commit but
>> nobody asked for a revert (so far), so I don't think it's general
>> consensus that this change should not be part of FreeBSD.  Being
>> undocumented means we do not encourage its use.
>>
>> I think there is good reason to add this extension for compatibility
>> reasons, plus it does not break anything.
>>
>> So did I missed some discussion about why it's a bad move?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net
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