Port of OpenBSD's sdiff
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 25 10:42:24 UTC 2007
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> Robert Watson escribió:
>> On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
>>>
>>> Personally, I see no point in adding -- style options, since the entire
>>> our world build without them. GNU people can always install gnu- ports, we
>>> just should insure they're posix compatible.
>>>
>>> Furthermore, having -- and - style options in one world effectively broke
>>> BSD's perfect look and feel:-)
>>
>> On the other hand -- intentionally breaking scripts that have worked with
>> FreeBSD for years isn't exactly the best way to make end-users happy.
>>
> How you mean this? The current GNU textproc tools have those -- options. How
> would that break scripts, then?
>
> Personally, I don't need or insist on having -- style options, but currently
> we have those and people might have got used to them. If we change the
> available options by just changing to the BSD-licensed ones without a deeper
> look of their functionality, we might break POLA.
>
> Moreover, the BSD-licensed ones have some of those, too as I wrote before,
> thus we just need to document them in the accompanying manpages. It's
> strange, but the manpages don't cover the existing long options, maybe the
> OpenBSD people didn't want people to use them.
Ah, OK -- I read the e-mail as stating that the options didn't exit in the
OpenBSD tools, yet proposing moving to them, and hence was concerned about
compatibility with existing scripts.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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