[illumos-Developer] tr webrev

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 01:50 +0100, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
> Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
> > > But from reading the review, NetBSD tr lacks support for some things
> > > that FreeBSD supposedly has.  Chiefly support for internationalization
> > > (which is important when dealing with multibyte locales or character
> > > sets that have different interpretations for character classes), and
> > > support for -C.
> > 
> > Implementing -C for multibyte character classes is not trivial.
> > 
> > My general impression for BetBSD vs. FreeBSD is that FreeBSD usually is
> > more modern and more feature rich.
> 
> I would argue that it is a wrong impression. :)

Lets not debate which *BSD is better.  There are different choices
between them, and in fact we're here, working on yet another choice
(illumos). 

> 
> As for tr(1), the code is similar enough that one could easily take -C
> support from FreeBSD and extra fixes from NetBSD.  So we would have a
> single version, common code.

That would be awesome, if someone would pick up the work.

	- Garrett