From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 11:13:40 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 7EF1010656A9 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:13:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40BF78FC20 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:13:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EC6D1FFC33; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:13:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1E5C684559; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:13:39 +0200 (CEST) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: "V. T. Mueller\, Continum" References: <4C6505A4.9060203@FreeBSD.org> <4C6C1CFE.6060900@FreeBSD.org> <20100818.121635.431102609571763034.imp@bsdimp.com> <86bp8zdkp4.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4C6D0BBB.90304@continum.net> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:13:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4C6D0BBB.90304@continum.net> (V. T. Mueller's message of "Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:47:23 +0200") Message-ID: <867hjmdfdo.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: current@freebsd.org 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: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:13:40 -0000 "V. T. Mueller, Continum" writes: > If you're alluding to Dougs original email, I will strictly disagree. > He found a performance issue which noone had seen or brought up before > and gave feedback to Gabor in a constructive and distinctively polite > manner. It would have been far more "constructive and distinctively polite" to take ten minutes to build and run a profiling version of grep, and include the results in the OP. > I would also second, that changing back the default immediately then > would have been the better choice. No, it would only have ensured that nobody except Gabor used it. > In other words: as long as there are unresolved issues, the default > should be set to GNU grep. This doesn't stop anyone from improving the > BSD grep we're all waiting for. It only does good to those who rely on > using grep - expecting correctness and speed. Based on my 12 years of experience in this project, you are very, very wrong. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no