svn commit: r220250 - in stable/8: bin/test tools/regression/bin/test

[Alexander]

The downside is that one may end up writing scripts on FreeBSD which  
will unexpectedly break on other Unixes.
Alex.

----- Message from delphij at gmail.com ---------
     Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 00:33:43 -0700
     From: Xin LI <delphij at gmail.com>
  Subject: Re: svn commit: r220250 - in stable/8: bin/test  
tools/regression/bin/test
       To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>
       Cc: svn-src-stable at freebsd.org, svn-src-all at freebsd.org,  
src-committers at freebsd.org, Xin LI <delphij at freebsd.org>,  
svn-src-stable-8 at freebsd.org


> 2011/4/1 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>:
>> On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 06:23:44PM +0000, Xin LI wrote:
>>>   Accept == as an alias of = which is a popular GNU extension.
>>>
>>>   This is intentionally undocumented for now since it's not part
>>>   of any standard.
>>
>> I thought general consensus that this change should never be part of
>> FreeBSD, not just being undocumented (which, as we all know, is bad
>> practice pe se).
>
> This have been discussed in -standards@ and have been settled for more
> than 1 month, there were two developers asked me after the commit but
> nobody asked for a revert (so far), so I don't think it's general
> consensus that this change should not be part of FreeBSD.  Being
> undocumented means we do not encourage its use.
>
> I think there is good reason to add this extension for compatibility
> reasons, plus it does not break anything.
>
> So did I missed some discussion about why it's a bad move?
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net
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