On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:29:19PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 03:21:01PM -0700, Bert JW Regeer wrote: > > Even if BSD has no tradition to keep a separate program version, it is > > still very handy to be able to give this data to other developers if > > something is failing. > > $ ident failing-binary is the output that means something. A version > string will not. > > > > Programs that don't have a -v or --version switch are frustrating to > > Anyone used to working on BSD will not expect a -v switch. It isn't part > of BSD tradition. The simple fact there is no obivous "version" to print > just shows that in a OS that is developed and built as a whole, having a > version on the util is meaningless. > > > Dropping -v would be a bad thing, and make the tools not compatible, > > thus breaking many scripts that do expect a -v. > > Come on, how many scripts do you write that do "sdiff -v" today?
I have to agree with this. I will submit the port without -v/--version and worse comes to worse, add it in later if enough people complain. -- Steven Kreuzer http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
