From: rubybugsbmw@... Date: 2020-01-11T06:28:22+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:96776] [Ruby master Bug#8709] Dir.glob should return sorted file list Issue #8709 has been updated by bmwiedemann (Bernhard M. Wiedemann). Status changed from Rejected to Open There are two problems with unsorted glob: 1) it is different from glob in C, bash and perl that all sort by default. Even GNU make finally switched back to sorted wildcard/glob ( https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?52076 ) 2) it causes problems for reproducible builds, so that developers have to patch an infinite number of callers such as https://github.com/sass/sassc-ruby/pull/178 to be able to get identical build results on identical OSes on different machines. ---------------------------------------- Bug #8709: Dir.glob should return sorted file list https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8709#change-83770 * Author: tommorris (Tom Morris) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Target version: * ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p429 (2013-05-15) [x86_64-linux] Brightbox * Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN ---------------------------------------- On OS X, Dir.glob and Dir[] return an ordered list of files. On Ubuntu Linux, they do not and one must manually sort them. Returning a list of files that isn't in order fails the Principle of Least Astonishment. I attach a unit test to demonstrate ideal behaviour. ---Files-------------------------------- globtest.rb (454 Bytes) -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: