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making the grep-2.17 release soon

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: making the grep-2.17 release soon
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 18:34:59 -0800

I want to make a release soon, preferably next week, with a first
snapshot tomorrow.
There is the pcre-related problem that can result in an infloop or
segfault, but that is in libpcre.  I may write a configure-time test
to detect that and, when found, turn off pcre support or just make
configure fail.  Maybe.

Does anyone have issues they'd like to see addressed for grep-2.17?

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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Cc: 16698 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Subject: Re: bug#16698: making the grep-2.17 release soon
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 22:12:02 -0500

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On Saturday, February 08, 2014 18:34:59 Jim Meyering wrote:
> I want to make a release soon, preferably next week, with a first
> snapshot tomorrow.
> There is the pcre-related problem that can result in an infloop or
> segfault, but that is in libpcre.  I may write a configure-time test
> to detect that and, when found, turn off pcre support or just make
> configure fail.  Maybe.
> 
> Does anyone have issues they'd like to see addressed for grep-2.17?

can we add pkg-config support to pcre.m4 ?
-mike

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Message #14 received at 16698 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: arnold <at> skeeve.com
To: jim <at> meyering.net, 16698 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16698: making the grep-2.17 release soon
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:27:11 -0700

Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> wrote:

> Does anyone have issues they'd like to see addressed for grep-2.17?

Did we close the 'Lj' issue as "we're going to ignore this for now"?
It sounds like yes, but I thought I'd double check.

If so, some of the code in dfa.c related to case folding could probably
still use a little refactoring.  I can try to give that whirl if noone
beats me to it.

Thanks,

Arnold

Message #17 received at 16698 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: 16698 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16698: making the grep-2.17 release soon
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:17:29 -0800

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Saturday, February 08, 2014 18:34:59 Jim Meyering wrote:
>> I want to make a release soon, preferably next week, with a first
>> snapshot tomorrow.
...
>> Does anyone have issues they'd like to see addressed for grep-2.17?
>
> can we add pkg-config support to pcre.m4 ?

Hi Mike,
I have been pretty adamant about not relying on pkg-config, but if you're
volunteering to do the work and are careful to follow the brand new advice
from the autoconf manual -- use m4_pattern_forbid([^PKG_]) -- and do it today,
I'll go along.

Message #25 received at 16698-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Aharon Robbins <arnold <at> skeeve.com>
Cc: 16698-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16698: making the grep-2.17 release soon
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 08:25:08 -0800

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 11:27 PM,  <arnold <at> skeeve.com> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have issues they'd like to see addressed for grep-2.17?
>
> Did we close the 'Lj' issue as "we're going to ignore this for now"?
> It sounds like yes, but I thought I'd double check.

Paul made a convincing case, so I'm treating the issue as closed-for-now.
It's trivial to reopen if/when we get some good rebuttal.

> If so, some of the code in dfa.c related to case folding could probably
> still use a little refactoring.  I can try to give that whirl if noone
> beats me to it.

Sounds good.  If you'd like to see that in 2.17, please post it ASAP.

Message #28 received at 16698 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 16698 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jim <at> meyering.net
Subject: Re: bug#16698: making the grep-2.17 release soon
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 09:09:11 -0800

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Sounds good.  If you'd like to see that in 2.17, please post it ASAP.

That bug report about title case has led me to think that perhaps the 
post-2.16 --ignore-case performance improvements may have introduced 
some bugs.  Unfortunately the best way for me to think about this is to 
read the code some more, after which I'll understand the problem better. 
 I'll boost the priority of this.

Message #31 received at 16698 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini <at> gnu.org>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>, 16698 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16698: making the grep-2.17 release soon
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:17:25 +0100

Il 09/02/2014 03:34, Jim Meyering ha scritto:
> I want to make a release soon, preferably next week, with a first
> snapshot tomorrow.
> There is the pcre-related problem that can result in an infloop or
> segfault, but that is in libpcre.  I may write a configure-time test
> to detect that and, when found, turn off pcre support or just make
> configure fail.  Maybe.
>
> Does anyone have issues they'd like to see addressed for grep-2.17?

I think the change for RRI is wrong, but I'll comment in that bug.

Paolo

Message #34 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 16698 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16698: making the grep-2.17 release soon
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 21:08 -0500

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On Sunday, February 09, 2014 08:17:29 Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Saturday, February 08, 2014 18:34:59 Jim Meyering wrote:
> >> I want to make a release soon, preferably next week, with a first
> >> snapshot tomorrow.
> ...
> >> Does anyone have issues they'd like to see addressed for grep-2.17?
> > 
> > can we add pkg-config support to pcre.m4 ?
> 
> Hi Mike,
> I have been pretty adamant about not relying on pkg-config, but if you're
> volunteering to do the work and are careful to follow the brand new advice
> from the autoconf manual -- use m4_pattern_forbid([^PKG_]) -- and do it
> today, I'll go along.

it wasn't today, but i sent some patches that i think should work for us both
-mike

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