Re: sort personal dictionaries

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Karl Chen wrote:

>
> Hi, I keep my personal dictionary in version control (Subversion),
> so it is important to me that it be stored sorted
> lexicographically (or at least in some canonical order).
> Currently it is straight out of the hash table and changes every
> save.
>
> Would it be possible to output the personal dictionary sorted, if
> so specified by a configuration option?  Also I would like to be
> able write "0" as the size hint, to be able to merge the
> dictionary from multiple places without conflicts.
>
> I can write a patch if necessary.  It looks like only
> WritableDict::save() needs to be modified.

I will consider a patch but only if it is made optional at run-time via a 
configure option.