From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org>
Cc: 29880@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#29880] [PATCH] gnu: grep: Add PCRE support.
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 09:54:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmi3xvhb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgh8iabe.fsf@gnu.org> (Roel Janssen's message of "Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:28:53 +0100")
Hello,
Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org> skribis:
> I have been maintaining a separate package for grep with PCRE support
> for the users on our cluster. What I would like to add is that at least
> Debian and RedHat enable PCRE in their grep versions. So using Guix's
> grep broke some scripts.
>
> If compatibility with other GNU/Linux distributions counts for anything,
> I'd say we should enable it. I am in favor of enabling PCRE.
OK, that makes sense.
> We could provide a separate version of grep without PCRE as a
> grep-minimal.
Alternately, what we could do is:
1. Keep ‘grep-final’ as it is right now (without PCRE support; this
has never been a problem so far.)
2. Add PCRE to ‘grep’ itself (like Oleg did).
Thoughts?
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-09 8:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-28 19:18 [bug#29880] [PATCH] gnu: grep: Add PCRE support Oleg Pykhalov
2018-01-08 9:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-08 16:28 ` Roel Janssen
2018-01-09 8:54 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-01-09 11:23 ` Roel Janssen
2018-01-11 21:50 ` bug#29880: " Ludovic Courtès
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