On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Cedric Blancher <cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 19 October 2012 00:59, Roland Mainz <roland.ma...@nrubsig.org> wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Cedric Blancher >> <cedric.blanc...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> On 13 October 2012 16:40, Glenn Fowler <g...@research.att.com> wrote: >>>> ast-ksh 2012-10-12 alpha posted >>> >>> LGTM (looks good to me), but od and tr are missing. We use the >>> combination of od+head+tail and ~(X) to classify binary files and tr >>> for quick&dirty conversion jobs (like dos2unix and Japanese >>> processing). >> >> For the log: In the ksh93-integration project we moved tr.c and od.c >> to libcmd as preparation to use these builtins to replace the >> (rotten&&unmaintained&&standard-violating) old versions in /usr/bin. >> Testing by Sun (PIT+standards) did work smoothly (except issues in >> "od" which were promptly fixed by Glenn and the issue that 'tr" >> doesn't support XPG6's "-C") ... so technically I don't see problems >> with moving those two to libcmd, too. > > Thanks for lobbying :)
Grumpf... that wasn't an attempt in lobbying... I only tried to explain that the risk is quite low because some else already tried that path and didn't fail in unexpected and horribly ways... :-) ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.ma...@nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list ast-developers@research.att.com https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
