Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:13:24 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.ORG>, core@FreeBSD.ORG, delphij@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Official request: Please make GNU grep the default Message-ID: <4C66C0A4.3000301@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20100814155346.GA6510@nagual.pp.ru> References: <4C6505A4.9060203@FreeBSD.org> <20100814155346.GA6510@nagual.pp.ru>
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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. Gaborhome | help
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