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

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--- Mer 18/6/08, Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> ha scritto:

...
> 
> No, "here is a new bsd grep, but change all your
> scripts that have 
> relied on legitimate behavior of grep in the past" is
> a non-starter. I 
> haven't checked POSIX to see whether the particular
> construction I am 
> using fits the spec or not, but I really don't care. We
> need to be 
> feature-compatible with the GNU versions of these tools,
> both for 
> legacy scripts and also for those users migrating over from
> linux.
> 

OK, I probably exaggerated in that GNUisms are not all that bad. Let's look at it this way.. the problem is in regex so I don't see fit to start adapting ugly workarounds in BSD grep. If we really *need* the workaround I want to be able to ifdef it out for my own testing purposes.

By all means we will still need a GNU grep port available so we can have the best from both worlds (I already a port and sent it to Gabor for testing but I don't want to maintain it).

Pedro.



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