svn commit: r363091 - in head/contrib/bc: . include manuals src tests tests/bc

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 05:28:19PM +0100, Jessica Clarke wrote:
> On 30 Jul 2020, at 17:20, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 07:33:19AM +0000, Stefan Eßer wrote:
> >> Author: se
> >> Date: Sat Jul 11 07:33:18 2020
> >> New Revision: 363091
> >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/363091
> >> 
> >> Log:
> >>  Update to version 3.1.3
> >> 
> > Jumping on that commit, since the switch from our previous bc.
> > 
> > The output of the interactive bc has changed, the previous version had a clean
> > UI, the new version "pollutes" the output with plenty of lines about the
> > copyright:
> > 
> > ====
> > Copyright (c) 2018-2020 Gavin D. Howard and contributors
> > Report bugs at: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc
> > 
> > This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> > ====
> > 
> > Imagine if all programs where doing that, it would be painful, do you think
> > upstream can be convinced to remove those lines?
> > 
> > I no the GNU version also has the same polluted output which was one of the
> > reason I was happy with out previous version of bc.
> 
> By default both will print such a banner if and only if being called
> interactively. You can disable the banner explicitly with -q/--quiet
> for both GNU bc and this bc. I agree it's a bit noisy and would be
> nicer to not have that printed, but it's not without precedent for
> REPL-like things.

Yes it is not without precedent for REPL-like things, still I dislike this and
would be happy to get bc interactive be as nice as the previous one we had :)

If not I will deal with it and just yell internally each time I run it :D

Bapt
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