From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 21:00:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7389C1065670 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:00:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-132.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-132.bluehost.com [67.222.39.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E7E68FC13 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:00:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 23879 invoked by uid 0); 18 Nov 2008 21:00:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy4.bluehost.com with SMTP; 18 Nov 2008 21:00:51 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=ROl0sT2gfXDBwiFq0MDAItkvLSgOkXXNWCbYd6wLMfw4Z3FfaQWwcXOGiPxGSXAtT+G261F2Ivk3wucDaN6Zj+pUTa+9e3rMix+v32zh/7JWvFvSPC6RH/Ok3ca1XJQp; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L2Xgo-00018t-Tk for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:00:51 -0700 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:01:01 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:01:01 -0700 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20081118210101.GA5383@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+QahgC5+KEYLbs62" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: BSD-licensed text utility updates X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:00:53 -0000 --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I've been trying to keep generally aware of where things are with the attempts to port and develop BSD-licensed text processing utilities for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-bsdtexttools Apparently, the Google Summer of Code project that tackled the problem met with some success, notably in the area of grep porting and development, as noted on this year's GSOC notifications page: http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode-2008.html That page contains the following note: If we can accept the regex differencies in grep, it is ready to enter SVN after some thorough testing. Where can I find discussion, or at least updates, on the status of projects like this? Considering its completeness, and the fact that it has been declared ready for inclusion in the base system, I think this is a topic that might deserve some attention, and it certainly piques my interest. I'm similarly interested in other matters such as the license auditing infrastructure project (also mentioned on the GSOC page). If there's a mailing list appropriate to this sort of thing, whether for discussion, development, or just progress announcements, I haven't been able to find it. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed PDL: http://pdl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkjLQ0ACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUNQQCgvPREmxn8WtAsikr61pk/lqUj K+wAnjep3+FyftOim0nPfI7JgxQDxupw =hqO8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62--