gnu/67987: grep needs to be updated

[Ruslan Ermilov]

The following reply was made to PR gnu/67987; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>
To: Kim Scarborough <sluggo at unknown.nu>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: gnu/67987: grep needs to be updated
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:40:02 +0300

 On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:17:17PM -0500, Kim Scarborough wrote:
 > 
 > Can grep(1) be upgraded? The current version is 2.5.1. 2.4d is quite old...
 > 
 What do you need from 2.5.1, speficially?  And by the way,
 2.5.1 source distribution is not downloadable at the moment,
 and it's in this state for about a year already (I believe
 since the ftp.gnu.org was root compromised).  At least it
 was not downloadable a few months ago when I last checked.
 It also looks like a dead project, but I may be mistaken:
 
 http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/grep/grep/src/
 
 
 Cheers,
 -- 
 Ruslan Ermilov
 ru at FreeBSD.org
 FreeBSD committer