Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:15:41 -0500 From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <brandon@dvalentine.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@piwebs.com> Subject: Re: BSD-licensed gzip, grep and diff families in OpenBSD Message-ID: <20030823001541.GF43279@geekpunk.net> In-Reply-To: <20030823000339.GA99414@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200308230102.21879.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> <20030823000339.GA99414@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 05:03:39PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Only if they are relatively feature-complete with respect to the GNU > code and don't have significant regressions (e.g. one of the BSDL > reimplementations of grep floating around out there performs > significantly worse than GNU grep). Perhaps you could investigate for > us. I agree with Kris, but wanted to point out that at this moment OpenBSD is without sdiff(1) as a result of this change. I'm not interested in using any system without sdiff(1). Why not wait a bit and see how many OpenBSD users complain about this change? =) Brandon D. Valentine -- brandon@dvalentine.com http://www.geekpunk.net Pseudo-Random Googlism: truth is out about chinese espionage
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