Re: Support bytesize comparison in sort

[Mart Somermaa]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Mart Somermaa <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   
>> As I already explained, the current implementation behaves correctly
>> with *both* SI and powers-of-1024 input, so there is no need for two
>> option letters.
>>     
>
> We need to think of the future, not just for today's implementation.
> I expect future users to complain that 'sort' mishandles cases like
> 1001M versus 1.0G.  At that point we'll need two letters.  (But
> perhaps I'm wrong; that happens a lot. :-)
>   
 We should clearly state that this is a convenience feature that has
it's limitations and that users who need to compare 1200M to 1.0G should
resort to other tools. And again, 1001M is less than 1.0G if powers of
two are used ;) .