From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 15 19:43:18 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D846106566C for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:43:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net [207.145.128.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27E98FC1C for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:43:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.41]) by asbnvacz-mailrelay01.megapath.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3084A71525 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:18:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 8789 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2012 19:18:13 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 22354, pid: 20847, t: 0.1619s scanners: clamav: 0.88.2/m:52/d:10739 Received: from unknown (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 15 Mar 2012 19:18:12 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.8]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2308533C32; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:18:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id D139C39860; Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:18:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Gabor Kovesdan References: <4F60C059.7060904@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:18:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4F60C059.7060904@FreeBSD.org> (Gabor Kovesdan's message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:59:21 +0100") Message-ID: <44pqcd8yhd.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Oleg Moskalenko , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CFT: new BSD-licensed sort available X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:43:18 -0000 Gabor Kovesdan writes: > some time ago I started writing a BSDL sort variant from scratch since > the OpenBSD version did not support multibyte locales and was hard to > modify. The development was a bit stalled but recently, Oleg > Moskalenko showed interest in continuing > this version and he has made a very good job on this BSD sort > variant. Now it is compatible with the base version of GNU sort but > the performance in most cases (string sort and -n) is quite behind GNU > sort (although with -g it is about *4 times* faster). Oleg is still > working on optimizing the code and the long-term plan is to drop GNU > sort once this variant is good enough to replace it. For now, it is > only available in Ports Collection as textproc/bsdsort but if there is > no objection or any serious bug report I plan to add it to base > installed as bsdsort, being GNU sort still the default sort until it > proves that we can safely drop GNU sort. If you are interested in this > sort utility, could you please try the port and report us any issue > that you experience? portsdb(1) (from portupgrade) doesn't seem to like it; apparently it is missing a '-2' option, which I haven't tracked down yet...