In the "old" BSD sort, originated from OpenBSD, there was no -2 option, as far as I can see.
Oleg -----Original Message----- From: Oleg Moskalenko Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:30 PM To: 'Chris Rees'; Lowell Gilbert Cc: Gabor Kovesdan; freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: RE: CFT: new BSD-licensed sort available There is no option "-2" in the new BSD sort or in the GNU sort. There is no such option in Posix standard, too. What is this option about, do we need to add something ? Thanks Oleg -----Original Message----- From: utis...@gmail.com [mailto:utis...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Chris Rees Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 12:50 PM To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: Gabor Kovesdan; Oleg Moskalenko; freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFT: new BSD-licensed sort available On 15 March 2012 19:18, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > Gabor Kovesdan <ga...@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.moskale...@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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
