CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo]

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Andrey Chernov <ache at nagual.pp.ru> writes:
> > Please note that BSD grep is not localized (and can't be per design)
> > and works only with standard C locale. It may not affect ports
> > system processing but shurely affects real texts handling.
> That is very troubling. In this day and age localization is a
> requirement. I cannot imagine being supportive of adding something to
> the base that does not have this capability.

We don't have a locale-aware regex implementation.  Henry Spencer wrote
one for Tcl 8, and it seems to be under an MIT-equivalent license, but
I'm not sure how hard it would be to extirpate.  It might be easier to
lift it from PostgreSQL, which also uses it.

DES
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