Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 09:44:17 -0500 From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@freebsd.org> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One True Awk licensing Message-ID: <200111051444.fA5EiIr53729@green.bikeshed.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> of "Mon, 05 Nov 2001 12:45:50 %2B0100." <20011105124550.N83053@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> wrote: > -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.] It's part of Tcl 8.3+, actually. I made an attempt to porting it to libc interfaces but failed, however, that was some time ago. We'd just need to adapt it to our multibyte facilities, which probably aren't good enough now unless expanded significantly (c.f. Citrus, I'd imagine). Henry Spencer does seem to be on the planet still but I've never heard of anyone having gotten e-mail back from him, much less myself. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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