Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:45:50 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One True Awk licensing Message-ID: <20011105124550.N83053@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <200111050201.fA5210404370@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> References: <200111050201.fA5210404370@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com>
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-On [20011105 03:30], Bruce A. Mah (bmah@freebsd.org) wrote: >bwk wanted us to let him know if we decide to use it, because he has a >few minor code fixes (no feature changes) he'd like us to take too. > >(This all happened before we ran into the problem with needing POSIX.1 >character class support, and DES's subsequent patch to incorporate this >feature.) So we can become/are becoming/are willing to become the bwk maintainers? Personally it would be cool to do so. Anyone know or have contact with Henry Spencer? I can remember he was supposed to release his new regexp library, which would speed up freegrep as well. Otherwise I see the necessity to start maintaining this library as well. [Yes, I'd rather push as many GNU utilities from the tree if we can offer sufficient BSDL'd alternatives.] -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / Asmodai / Kita no Mono asmodai@[wxs.nl|[freebsd|xmach].org], finger asmodai@ninth-circle.dnsalias.net http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ Love is suicide... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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