Re: sort --version-sort

[enh <enh%google.com@localhost>]

fwiw, one reason i never bothered implementing strverscmp() for
Android is that (a) basic testing showed that the gnu documentation
didn't match their implementation and (b) no two existing
implementations appeared to behave the same.

interestingly, i note that freebsd has added a strverscmp() whereas
openbsd has a vsort.c in sort itself. and the two implementations
appear completely unrelated. ah, and if i look further, i see that
freebsd doesn't even use its own strverscmp() in its sort. (which, to
be fair, is an accurate duplication of gnu's nonsense iirc, which was
another finding that made me say "not until/unless there's an
agreed-upon spec", given that sort(1) [and ls(1)] are the two places
you see folks wanting version sorting functionality.)

On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> > Or at switching to FreeBSD's, which has many more options supported?
> It is clearly missing sorting by hex numbers (or, more generally, base-n)
> and roman numerals.