Official request: Please make GNU grep the default

Gabor Kovesdan gabor at FreeBSD.org
Sat Aug 14 16:13:31 UTC 2010


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.

Gabor



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