Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:25:03 -0700 (PDT) From: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo] Message-ID: <216970.93731.qm@web32701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <48593673.8030607@FreeBSD.org>
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--- Mer 18/6/08, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> ha scritto:
...
>
> No, "here is a new bsd grep, but change all your
> scripts that have
> relied on legitimate behavior of grep in the past" is
> a non-starter. I
> haven't checked POSIX to see whether the particular
> construction I am
> using fits the spec or not, but I really don't care. We
> need to be
> feature-compatible with the GNU versions of these tools,
> both for
> legacy scripts and also for those users migrating over from
> linux.
>
OK, I probably exaggerated in that GNUisms are not all that bad. Let's look at it this way.. the problem is in regex so I don't see fit to start adapting ugly workarounds in BSD grep. If we really *need* the workaround I want to be able to ifdef it out for my own testing purposes.
By all means we will still need a GNU grep port available so we can have the best from both worlds (I already a port and sent it to Gabor for testing but I don't want to maintain it).
Pedro.
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