Re: seq feature: print letters

[Assaf Gordon]

On 01/26/2015 03:39 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > > On 25/01/15 05:10, Assaf Gordon wrote:

> > > > I'm thinking that perhaps it would be better not to include this in 
> > > > 'coreutils', and instead put it in another, separate project.
> > > > This way, there's no worries about adding bloat to coreutils, while being more 
> > > > flexible in adding other features (like additional character sets from latest 
> > > > unicode).

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> > I was thinking of features like:

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> That does sound like it's getting out of scope for seq
 
So I believe it is down to a judgement call, as to whether include the feature in coreutils' 'seq', and keep it minimal,
or move it to a separate project, and expand it over time (or both - the minimal 
"index" letters in coreutils, and more sets in a separate project?).

The decision is of course yours.


As a side note,
In the patch that I've sent, some of the sets of letters have been copied from 
the Unicode/CLDR website and data files.
To the best of my understanding, this is fully compatible with GPL ( see 
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#Unicode ),
But it might be needed to include the unicode license file as an additional 
file.
I can send an improved patch if we've proceeding with including this feature.


Regards,
 - Assaf