From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 18 17:13:15 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1757A16A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:13:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailgate-internal2.sri.com (mailgate-internal2.SRI.COM [128.18.84.104]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AACDF43D5D for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:13:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gilham@csl.sri.com) Received: from localhost (HELO mailgate-internal2.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by mailgate-internal2.sri.com with SMTP; 18 Feb 2005 17:13:14 -0000 Received: from mx1.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.29])M2005021809131418069 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:13:14 -0800 Received: from snapdragon.csl.sri.com (snapdragon.csl.sri.com [130.107.19.20]) by mx1.csl.sri.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j1IHDE55044656 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:13:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gilham@snapdragon.csl.sri.com) Received: from snapdragon (localhost [127.0.0.1])j1IHDDdj007984 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:13:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gilham@snapdragon.csl.sri.com) Message-Id: <200502181713.j1IHDDdj007984@snapdragon.csl.sri.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from Sergey Lyubka <72c3a95705021709191385f41@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:13:13 -0800 From: Fred Gilham Subject: Re: pcre in base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:13:15 -0000 > As the backward compatibility will not be destroyed, > I felt that it would be good having such sed in the base. Yes it will. Code that depends on the PCRE version of SED will not work under non PCRE versions of SED. This is annoying. I've had this bite me from time to time with bash. But at least in the bash case I could install just install bash once I figured out that the stupid shell script was using funky bash features. In the PCRE SED case I would not know what to do since it would come with some particular version of FreeBSD. > But if the default tool can be done better that it is now, why not > do it better? Because the default tool has a defacto standard behavior. Just build a new tool. FreeBSD is not Linux. -- Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com The density of a textbook must be inversely proportional to the density of the students using it. --- Dave Stringer-Calvert