From: Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list <bug-gnulib@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cmp/diff
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 22:55:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d0a0d5f680e0e60a849d018ac02a08914ff0260.camel@josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b8233d6-76d1-487e-d724-421780fafc88@cs.ucla.edu>
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lör 2020-12-26 klockan 11:12 -0800 skrev Paul Eggert:
> On 12/26/20 10:49 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > > It would be nice to reduce that set of tools.
> > Well, both 'cmp' and 'diff' are part of POSIX:
>
> Even awk is on that list, and it's much fancier than cmp or diff. And
> I wouldn't support removing awk either, as it's a handy tool in
> Makefiles when the shell isn't up to a text-processing task.
Okay, let's wait ten years and revisit that :-)
I believe awk will be more of a rarity in the future.
> Looking at that list now, the only obvious tool to remove is egrep,
> since 'grep -E' subsumes it nowadays.
Yes, I think that should be dropped.
What about 'install-info'? It is quite GNU-specific. Nothing in
gnulib appears to refer to it (except for the make-stds manual..).
/Simon
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-26 16:24 cmp/diff Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2020-12-26 17:32 ` cmp/diff Bruno Haible
2020-12-26 18:34 ` cmp/diff Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list
2020-12-26 18:49 ` cmp/diff Bruno Haible
2020-12-26 19:12 ` cmp/diff Paul Eggert
2020-12-26 21:55 ` Simon Josefsson via Gnulib discussion list [this message]
2020-12-26 23:12 ` cmp/diff Paul Eggert
2020-12-27 0:07 ` cmp/diff Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-27 0:23 ` cmp/diff Paul Eggert
2020-12-27 1:05 ` cmp/diff Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-27 0:07 ` cmp/diff Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-27 0:43 ` egrep, fgrep, and install-info Bruno Haible
2020-12-27 1:12 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-12-26 19:31 ` cmp/diff Paul Smith
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