Hi Folks,
Oleg Moskalenko has been working very hard on BSD sort and by now we
think it is compatible with the base version (and has even more
features, the ideas mostly taken from the latest GNU sort) and it is
efficient. I just updated the textproc/bsdsort port to the latest
version so that people can test it and I plan to commit it to HEAD in
some days, for now installed as "bsdsort", leaving GNU sort the default
version. If someone has any objection, please raise it now. Future plans
are to switch the logic and make BSD sort default once it has undergone
enough testing and finally drop GNU sort permanently if no problems appear.
Note that the strcoll() and wcscoll() implementations of FreeBSD are
incomplete so neither GNU sort nor the new BSD sort work 100% correctly
with multi-byte locales but once the underlying functions are
implemented, BSD sort will just work fine.
Gabor
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