-----Original Message----- From: <owner-src-committ...@freebsd.org> on behalf of Jessica Clarke <jrt...@freebsd.org> Date: 2020-07-30, Thursday at 09:35 To: Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> Cc: Stefan Eßer <s...@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committ...@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, <svn-src-h...@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r363091 - in head/contrib/bc: . include manuals src tests tests/bc
On 30 Jul 2020, at 17:31, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 05:28:19PM +0100, Jessica Clarke wrote: >> On 30 Jul 2020, at 17:20, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 07:33:19AM +0000, Stefan Eßer wrote: >>>> Author: se >>>> Date: Sat Jul 11 07:33:18 2020 >>>> New Revision: 363091 >>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/363091 >>>> >>>> Log: >>>> Update to version 3.1.3 >>>> >>> Jumping on that commit, since the switch from our previous bc. >>> >>> The output of the interactive bc has changed, the previous version had a clean >>> UI, the new version "pollutes" the output with plenty of lines about the >>> copyright: >>> >>> ==== >>> Copyright (c) 2018-2020 Gavin D. Howard and contributors >>> Report bugs at: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc >>> >>> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. >>> ==== >>> >>> Imagine if all programs where doing that, it would be painful, do you think >>> upstream can be convinced to remove those lines? >>> >>> I no the GNU version also has the same polluted output which was one of the >>> reason I was happy with out previous version of bc. >> >> By default both will print such a banner if and only if being called >> interactively. You can disable the banner explicitly with -q/--quiet >> for both GNU bc and this bc. I agree it's a bit noisy and would be >> nicer to not have that printed, but it's not without precedent for >> REPL-like things. > > Yes it is not without precedent for REPL-like things, still I dislike this and > would be happy to get bc interactive be as nice as the previous one we had :) > > If not I will deal with it and just yell internally each time I run it :D `alias bc='bc -q'` / `alias bc bc -q` and preserve your inner zen? :) Jess I was actually about to complain about the new `dc' not exiting after evaluating a '-e' expression, without an explicit 'q'. But then I noticed the "DC_EXPR_EXIT" envvar, which restores the desired behavior. That lead me to discover "DC_ENV_ARGS" and, correspondingly, "BC_ENV_ARGS"; that last one would be helpful here. Thanks, Ravi (rpokala@) _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"