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

[Doug Barton]

Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 09:17:01PM +0200, K?vesd?n G?bor wrote:
>> Yes, of course, I haven't forgotten about your suggestion. First, I'd
>> like to process the trivial errors, which come up like this one and make
>> some tests myself. Then I'll think about this idea and ask portmgr to do
>> an exp-run with BSD grep.

I think that would be very valuable.

> 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.

I also found another gratuitous difference in behavior tonight, again 
from portmaster (which uses grep a LOT, which is why I thought to try 
it out in the first place). I do this type of thing in lots of places:

pkg=/var/db/pkg/p5-Net-DNS-0.63
if grep -ql '^@pkgdep ' $pkg/+CONTENTS 2>/dev/null; then
	<do something>
fi

With gnu grep I get no output, and if there is a match the if 
statement just runs as I'd expect. With bsd grep I'm getting the name 
of the file as output.

That's 3 strikes and you're out as far as I'm concerned. I think this 
project needs to come a lot closer to feature compatibility with gnu 
grep (including the ability to be localized) before it's ready for a 
wider audience. Of course, that's just my opinion.

Doug

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