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bug#16459: groups to use a selectable separator or to encode group names
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Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] |
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bug#16459: groups to use a selectable separator or to encode group names with spaces |
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Thu, 16 Jan 2014 04:27:58 +0000 |
> As there's nothing we can do upstreams, I'm marking this as "not a bug"
> and set the status to closed.
Why "nothing"? And it *is* a bug, IMO.
My rebuttal is as the following:
If the feature is implemented upstream it can get to CYGWIN, eventually.
Not the other way around. Currently CYGWIN uses 8.15, which is not behind a
lot.
They catch up from time to time to right to the current versions of the tools...
As for their response, here it is:
> > > is unparsable in CYGWIN (scripting becomes problematic), because the
> > > space is used both
> > > in the group names (as obtained from Windows) and to delimit the group
> > > names in the groups'
> > > output:
> > Such a proposal should be made to upstream coreutils, as it could
> > possibly be of benefit to more platforms than just cygwin.
Which is exactly what I was doing posting this suggestion here.
Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI