Update of bug #51506 (project findutils):
Severity: 3 - Normal => 1 - Wish
Status: None => Wont Fix
Assigned to: None => jay
Open/Closed: Open => Closed
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Follow-up Comment #13:
I recommend using an approach such as the one suggested by Bernhard.
We're not going to change the behaviour of -print because this would make the
resulting executable fail to comply with POSIX. We're not going to
create/build an an alternate executable with a different meaning of -print
because distributions won't include it anyway (they don't include the existing
alternate binary "oldfind" which we already have).
Consider "find" from a user-interface point of view. It already has too many
options, primitives, tests etc. The manual (both Texinfo and man) is large.
Every additional option is a burden in maintenance (of tests, of the
implementation code, and of documentation). For these reasons we apply a high
bar to the creation of new features. Higher still for features whose
underlying use-case can easily be achieved by the use of _existing_ features
of find.
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