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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
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