On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:13:24 +0200 "Diego \"Flameeyes\" Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tuesday 29 March 2005 18:56, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > This isn't like find or tar or similar, where switching GNU syntax | > to POSIX is pretty trivial. There are a *lot* of extensions in GNU | > sed, and we use them. | I haven't saw so much of these extension in the ebuilds themselves.. | Probably is needed for many other scripts, but still using the | standard posix syntax when gnu's one is not needed could be helpful.
*shrug* I looked into this back when the issue first arose with the ppc-macos port. I and several others worked out that it'd be a heck of a lot of effort for virtually no gain on the sed issue (this isn't the case for most other core apps) -- after all, isn't the point of Gentoo/blah to replace a lot of the lame blah-provided tools with something better? | Also iirc bsdish sed has its own extensions.. if they are compatible | could be used. Well, see... If these extensions are sufficient to cover everything in the tree and everything that is ever likely to be in the tree, then there isn't a problem. I strongly suspect that this won't be the case. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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