Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:17:46 +0700 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> To: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non-GNU Sort Message-ID: <20040923141745.GA42205@regency.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <61632.208.4.77.15.1095948841.squirrel@www2.neuroflux.com> References: <61632.208.4.77.15.1095948841.squirrel@www2.neuroflux.com>
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:14:01AM -0600, Ryan Sommers wrote: > Is anyone, or does anyone know of anyone, working on a non-GNU licensed > version of sort? I'm going to try and devote some of my free time to > beginning this project and I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if anyone has > already gotten started. I think that NetBSD have BSD-licensed sort(1), but it seems we went on with GNU for some reason(s). I suspect multibyte character support is one of them, probably performance also. I believe ache@ and/or tjr@ are the right persons to contact WRT this. ./danfe
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