Re: seq feature: print letters

[Pádraig Brady]

On 25/01/15 05:10, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello Pádraig and all,
> 
> Regarding the "seq" + letters feature
> (originally: 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-06/msg00090.html ).
> 
> 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).
> 
> WDYT?

I'm not sure. I was considering this for the release of coreutils
after the imminent 8.24 one.  I'm thinking V9 will start linking
various utils to libunistring, and doing so in seq may not be much
of a stretch.

I'll post a plan about that soon.

thanks,
Pádraig