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

[Pádraig Brady]

On 27/09/10 14:07, Jim Meyering wrote:
> 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.

tr this evening
multi-core sort testing probably wednesday evening
join multibyte tweaks friday
sort multibyte alignment with join (not sure)
split --number another couple of days.

I'll have more info in a few days.

cheers,
Pádraig.