Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:29:02 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>, hackers@freebsd.org, K?vesd?n G?bor <gabor@t-hosting.hu>, "Sean C. Farley" <scf@freebsd.org>, Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> Subject: Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo] Message-ID: <485686BE.6070800@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <86bq211rqw.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <485453F2.60507@FreeBSD.org> <4854BC29.3060507@FreeBSD.org> <4854C96A.1080603@aueb.gr> <48556AAD.9010602@t-hosting.hu> <20080615212613.GA97326@nagual.pp.ru> <4855EDFE.3010708@FreeBSD.org> <86bq211rqw.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> writes:
>>> Please note that BSD grep is not localized (and can't be per design)
>>> and works only with standard C locale. It may not affect ports
>>> system processing but shurely affects real texts handling.
>> That is very troubling. In this day and age localization is a
>> requirement. I cannot imagine being supportive of adding something to
>> the base that does not have this capability.
>
> We don't have a locale-aware regex implementation. Henry Spencer wrote
> one for Tcl 8, and it seems to be under an MIT-equivalent license, but
> I'm not sure how hard it would be to extirpate. It might be easier to
> lift it from PostgreSQL, which also uses it.
Ok, that's a slightly different situation, thanks for clarifying that.
Sounds like that would be a good project for GSOC next year. :)
Meanwhile, for those who didn't notice last night (*cough*) I added
the WITHOUT_GNU_GREP knob for src.conf to make it easier for folks to
test this in HEAD.
hth,
Doug
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