Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:36:05 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Cc: Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo] Message-ID: <1213814165.68025.41.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <216970.93731.qm@web32701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <216970.93731.qm@web32701.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 11:25 -0700, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > --- 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. > I agree that the regex lib is a better place to apply such a fix. -- Coleman Kane [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkhZVZMACgkQcMSxQcXat5ebIQCeNbf1dMe3tCxLMPNvMlBpjH9+ MgoAnjdnGgsnvxYdjrmOj1jlqGVTGNEW =VeaD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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