From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 14 16:13:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50FB01065670; Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:13:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from server.mypc.hu (server.mypc.hu [87.229.73.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 092CF8FC0A; Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:13:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.mypc.hu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.mypc.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80FF514DC64E; Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:13:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at server.mypc.hu Received: from server.mypc.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by server.mypc.hu (server.mypc.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id TLr2grEwbm33; Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:13:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.105] (catv-80-99-92-167.catv.broadband.hu [80.99.92.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by server.mypc.hu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3234D14DC548; Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:13:27 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C66C0A4.3000301@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:13:24 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-PT; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrey Chernov , Doug Barton , core@FreeBSD.ORG, delphij@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4C6505A4.9060203@FreeBSD.org> <20100814155346.GA6510@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20100814155346.GA6510@nagual.pp.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:13:31 -0000 Em 2010.08.14. 17:53, Andrey Chernov escreveu: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 01:43:16AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > >> Gabor, >> >> I hope at this point it goes without saying that I have a lot of respect >> > I am Nth on this. Although I do a lot of l10n work in the beautefull less > bureocracy FreeBSD time and very appreciate what Gabor did, the problem is > in other area: BSD grep simple not ready for wide testers circle and needs > to be polished further. I talk not about it speed alone but about all its > bugs revealed right after import. Let few ethusiast who have spare time > for experiments run at at now. What we need is rock stable grep, and > changing regex library for speed don't add anything here. From my point of > view importing of the latest GNU grep instead would have more benefits. > And we need to pend BSD grep with all its can of bugs for a while, until > faster regex will be imported (disadvantages must be balanced with > somewhat sweet). It is not my final verdict and we'll can return to it > after all serious bugs will be eliminated. Right now we'll have f.e. > numerous report agaist wrong greeping dirs which are unacceptable for any > development system including even non-production one like -current. > Yes, I'm sorry for my slow reaction, I got a flu some time ago and that prevented me from fixing the bugs earlier. I have several fixes in my working copy, which are being discussed with my mentor. Probably, today or tomorrow they will be committed. Gabor