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Date:      Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:11:36 -0700
From:      "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To:        "Andrey Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, "K?vesd?n G?bor" <gabor@t-hosting.hu>, "Diomidis Spinellis" <dds@aueb.gr>, hackers@freebsd.org,  "Doug Barton" <dougb@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org,  "Sean C. Farley" <scf@freebsd.org>, "Max Khon" <fjoe@samodelkin.net>
Subject:   Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo]
Message-ID:  <7d6fde3d0806152111t3306279dr841b90740141fcfb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080615212613.GA97326@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> 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.
>
> 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.

Kudos on the hard work Gabor.

Now all we need to do is write / import a BSD compatible less(1) into
FreeBSD =).

-Garrett



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