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

[Jessica Clarke]

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.

Jess