Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:26:43 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who broke sort(1) ? Message-ID: <20020924212643.A4A892A7D6@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <200209242101.g8OL1TVd090894@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:30:11 -0700, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> said: > > > Oh man, this is going to suck. There are thousands and thousands of third > > party scripts that use +n syntax. > > > I am most unhappy with this change. :-( > > The time to complain about it was back in 1992when the old syntax was > labeled ``deprecated'' by P1003.2, or in 1999 when the revision cycle > was just heating up. Old deprecated features were automatically > dropped leading up to the 2001 revision, unless someone could make a > case for their retention. That case wasn't made in the case of > `sort', and as a result the Standard no longer permits the old syntax. > It's not like people didn't have nine years' advance warning to fix > their scripts. Closed payware standards do not count as 'fair warning'. I still have never been able to see a posix standard. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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