From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 24 07:38:02 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA221065672 for ; Mon, 24 May 2010 07:38:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bfiedler@asu.edu) Received: from mail-pv0-f182.google.com (mail-pv0-f182.google.com [74.125.83.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B188FC19 for ; Mon, 24 May 2010 07:38:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvh11 with SMTP id 11so330212pvh.13 for ; Mon, 24 May 2010 00:38:01 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.141.106.21 with SMTP id i21mr3720049rvm.40.1274684910403; Mon, 24 May 2010 00:08:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.32.9 with HTTP; Mon, 24 May 2010 00:08:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 00:08:30 -0700 Message-ID: From: Ben Fiedler To: hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: GSoC: BSD text tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 07:38:02 -0000 I'll be working on replacing groff with mdocml (mandoc) in the system base (and yes, I am aware of Gordon's work on a man replacement). In addition, I will be creating or (more likely) porting BSD-ish licensed feature-complete replacements for: diff, sort, sdiff, diff3, also moving them into the base (and yes, I know of the bsddiff and bsdsort ports). Finally, I will perform some benchmark comparisons between these new tools and their GNU counterparts. More info is available at my project page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/SOC2010BenFiedler Any feedback or questions are most welcome. Thanks, -Ben