Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:12:40 -0400 From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diff(1) Message-ID: <20040917191240.GR36708@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20040917.130549.22012205.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <16715.4611.108597.354107@piglet.timing.com> <20040917.130549.22012205.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 01:05:49PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <16715.4611.108597.354107@piglet.timing.com> > Ben Mesander <ben@timing.com> writes: > : I've recently done a port of OpenBSD diff(1) to FreeBSD for > : licensing reasons (the diff(1) in base FreeBSD is GPL licensed), > : OpenBSD has a BSD-style license). > : > : I was going to work with Warner to see if I could get this into > : the ports collection. But we were also curious to see if other > : people thought it might be OK to replace the GNU diff in base > : with the OpenBSD diff. > : > : For reference, here is the OpenBSD diff source and manpage: > : http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/diff/ > : > : There would also have to be some integration with other programs > : (such as diff3(1)). > > Needless to say, I think this is an excellent idea. I'm happy to do > the leg work to get this into the tree, so that's not an issue. :-) > > OpenBSD's diff is much smaller than gnu's. It seems to use less > memory as well for many operations. Its speed seems about the same. > Most of these impressions are based on light testing, so YMMV. > > This would be in keeping with our march to get rid of other gnu > products in our tree: awk, sort, etc. So if we get rid of three GNU, can we get one SCO (cscope)? But seriously, is this better than ports/textproc/freegrep which "should" have been the FreeBSD grep years ago? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
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