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Date:      Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:33:09 +0200
From:      Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jason Hellenthal <jhell@DataIX.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: issues with bsdgrep and lang/go
Message-ID:  <4E442E75.6010002@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110810200908.GA40799@freebsd.org>
References:  <20110809081842.GA64643@freebsd.org> <20110810030257.GA31452@DataIX.net> <20110810200908.GA40799@freebsd.org>

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Em 2011.08.10. 22:09, Alexander Best escreveu:
> well i'd like to help the author of bsdgrep to improve it. testing it and
> then going back to gnu grep, because bsdgrep still has bugs isn't going to help
> much. by using it i'd like to trip over these kind of bugs and report them.
>
> but you're right...the author hasn't really paid a lot of attention to bsdgrep,
> lately.:(  i guess that's a problem when you have an open os, where everybody
> can do as much or as little as it pleases him.;)
I do! In this year's Summer of Code I'm working on the regex code. A 
good and efficient regex support is important for a fast and clean BSD 
grep. The ultimate goal is to get rid of both GNU grep and libgnuregex. 
I'm sorry if I temporarily neglected some bug reports.

Gabor



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