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 '[EMAIL PROTECTED] ' $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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