Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:50:29 +0000 From: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: Oleg Moskalenko <oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com>, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT: new BSD-licensed sort available Message-ID: <CADLo83_r3SgYj6apifN6NTCwZ-ApYbLkyMOS5zcCmTFst_Vcow@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44pqcd8yhd.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <4F60C059.7060904@FreeBSD.org> <44pqcd8yhd.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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On 15 March 2012 19:18, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> 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 <oleg.moskalenko@citrix.com> 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... Fails with gnusort too anyway: [crees@pegasus]~% gsort -2 gsort: invalid option -- '2' Try `gsort --help' for more information. [crees@pegasus]~% Chris
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