Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:28:30 -0700 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libncurses Makefile Message-ID: <20020924212830.GA20830@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020924212009.77BDF2A7D6@canning.wemm.org> References: <20020924211110.GB61277@nagual.pp.ru> <20020924212009.77BDF2A7D6@canning.wemm.org>
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:20:09PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> "Andrey A. Chernov" wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 14:05:38 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > For ports we MUST set _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in the bsd.port.mk
>
> No, this is the equivalent of sticking our heads in the sand and pretending
> that we dont have a problem. The Real World consists of much more than
> the ports tree. The problems that the ports tree has are the only indication
> that we have about how the rest of the Real World code will fare with
> our releases.
>
> Turn off the silly feature in sort(1) the first place. Let people request
> it by setting _POSIX2_VERSION=200112 if they want to sort a filename that
> begins with a +. Or, use 'sort ./+file' like they would already have to
> do for just about every other unix OS on the planet.
>
If we turn off posix in sort(1) to permit " sort +1", then
should we add
warnx("The sort +pos -pos syntax is deprecated.");
to educate the masses.
--
Steve
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