Re: [coreutils] what belongs in the next coreutils release?

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 26/09/10 20:29, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> It's been 5 months since coreutils-8.5, and the list of NEWS
>> entries is long enough that I think we'd do well to make a release.
>> I've included those entries below.
>>
>> Other than the imminent fix for tr's assert-on-invalid-inputs bug,
>> is there anything people would like to see included?
>
> I'd also like to test out mutexes vs spinlocks in multicore sort.
>
> I'd also like to test if it's appropriate to limit the
> default max number of processors used in multicore sort
> to something like 8.

Waiting a week or two would be fine.
Does that sound reasonable?

> I was hoping to get multibyte support for join in
> (which is pretty much complete now), but given
> the requirement that `sort` order matches up with
> that of `join`, we'll have to do both in unison I think.

I'd prefer to defer those changes, too.

> There is also the split --number enhancement which
> is mostly done except for some docs and refactoring,
> but we might push that out till next time, time depending.

Either way would be fine with me.
It's a new feature, so even if the code is immature,
it won't cause much harm.