On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
...Having two
different quoting modes, where you can choose between the options, may
be the way to go - but then you STILL have the problem of what to pick
as the default of those two modes when neither one was explicitly requested.
Exactly. So if you want to call ls' old behavior "broken", which I presume that one would do to justify creating this change, then your choices boil down to:
- Leave decades of behavior in place, and deal with "broken" output, or
- Create new, different broken output.
It boggles my mind that someone decided we should have a new default. The output is not better, confusingly, the output is different depending on if you send to terminal or not, and I have not seen any great desire in the community for this change.