Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:05:38 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses Makefile Message-ID: <20020924210538.69A9D2A7D6@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <5799.1032900752@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20020924204954.GB60957@nagual.pp.ru>, "Andrey A. Chernov" writes: > >On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 13:39:55 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> > >> This is silly.. the +POS syntax is probably one of the most commonly > >> used syntaxes for sort. > > > >Talk with POSIX people about it. +N is valid filename per POSIX, so old > >syntax can't be preserved. > > Decisions like this should make us reconsider the desirability of > POSIX compliance or even "near-POSIX" compliance. Standards compliance for the sake of standards compliance sake in spite of common practice is utterly the wrong reason. This particular "feature" is going to cause a *huge* amount of pain. I wouldn't be suprised if it costs us anouther 500-1000 unbuldable ports. 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message
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