On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> wrote: > Il 11/04/2014 21:04, Jim Meyering ha scritto: > >> I would like to plan for a release in a couple of weeks. Paolo, >> you seemed to be motivated to work on an egrep/fgrep alternative. >> I am happy with including shell scripts for grep-2.19, but if you feel >> strongly about it and are preparing a patch, let me know. > > > I am motivated, but I am also on vacation. :) > > Can't we just apply the revert that I posted?
Hi Paolo, Sorry, but like Paul, I do not want to revert to the prior state. First, it is cleaner to separate the wrappers for obsolescent egrep and fgrep from grep's internals. In addition, I have a strong bias for coding only for reasonable portability targets. While I am not convinced that a system lacking any type of shell constitutes a reasonable portability target, I am willing to accommodate, if someone else does the work to prepare a complete patch.
