On Mar 14, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Steven Kreuzer wrote:
Greetings-
I am currently working on replacing the GNU version of sdiff with a
version
of sdiff that was released into the public domain and is used in
OpenBSD
Xin LI has been guiding me along with the project and he suggested I
post
here to see what you guys think.
I achieve 100% compatability with the GNU version, I need to add
-v/--version and the issue I ran into is that since this program would
become part of the base os, what exactly should be displayed.
My idea is to simply print __FreeBSD_version but I am open to other
suggestions.
For reference:
$ sdiff -v
sdiff (GNU diffutils) 2.8.7
Written by Thomas Lord.
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There
is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
And my port from OpenBSD:
$ ./sdiff -v
sdiff (BSD diffutils) 602111
Written by Raymond Lai.
This work has been released into the public domain.
--
Steven Kreuzer
http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer
Keeping the generic BSD diffutils version string might be wiser as
autoconf and friends will be better able to pick up on the version and
features available, etc, unless you plan on doing something non-
standard with your version (i.e. remove features, add others, etc).
My 2 cents.
-Garrett
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