FreeBSD Port: mmv-1.01b.14

[Simon Olofsson]

You are right, this is an annoyance. I chose the Debian package
because it is actively maintained and licensed under GPL.
Maybe it would be nice if we had an patch that changes the character.
Then everybody could choose via OPTIONS.
I think this would be the smartest way because it would allow to use
the Debian version.

Regards,
Simon

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:30:33AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> The mmv update from 1.01b to 1.01b.14 that just got committed changes
> the "to" wildcard index character from '=' to '#'.  The Debian sources
> the new version is based on is derived from the DOS version of mmv
> (which uses '#') where the original FreeBSD port referenced the Unix
> mmv (which uses '=').
> 
> I posted a bugreport about this to the Debian bugtracker, but they
> closed it saying "it's always been '#' for us".
> 
> Similarly, I think FreeBSD should keep using '=', since it's always
> been that way for _us_ and will break too many preexisting scripts.
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267138

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