On 2012.05.08. 17:51, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
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.
As I announced before, today finally I've committed BSD sort to
-CURRENT. By default, it will be "bsdsort" and GNU sort will be
installed as "sort", like before. If you can, please opt in for the
default BSD sort by setting WITH_BSD_SORT, which will cause that BSD
sort is installed as "sort" and GNU sort will be "gnusort". If no bugs
appear and portmgr can run an exp-run for default BSD sort, I'll switch
the logic to a default BSD sort.
Gabor
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