From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 6 5:42:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B376814BB8 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 05:42:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac8.wam.umd.edu (root@rac8.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.148]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA10982; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:42:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac8.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac8.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA06890; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:42:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by rac8.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA06886; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:42:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac8.wam.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 08:42:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Howard To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) In-Reply-To: <93530.931241617@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > The reason I'm suggesting using a port rather than having the code > imported into the base system is that it allows people to "opt in" to > testing it, rather than forcing it down people's throats. The idea is > that, when it's proved itself as a port, enough people will clamor for > its inclusion in the base system for that to become a reality. > > Trying to get software imported directly into the base system without a > trial run as a port is almost always a painful exercise (and I'm not > talking about technical issues here). Ahh, this is a good idea. I have not yet replaced GNU grep on my system with this so it has not yet occurred to me that there might be issues with that. I noticed Jake Burkholder put together a simple port. I'll go ahead and make sure that stays updated. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message