diff(1)

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 01:05:49PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <16715.4611.108597.354107 at piglet.timing.com>
>             Ben Mesander <ben at 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?

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