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 Bapt
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