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25.0.93; Clarify the dependency on find/grep for platforms not having those tools

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Message #37 received at 23451 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Cc: 23451 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#23451: 25.0.93; Clarify the dependency on find/grep for
 platforms not having those tools
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 01:00:18 +0300

On 5/29/17 8:35 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I think we should simply test explicitly for 'find' and 'grep' being
> available, before we run the command.

Windows comes with find.exe, though, one we can't use.

> Otherwise, it sounds like we
> will increase the complexity and the fragility of the feature, to very
> little gain.

Agreed, I was hoping for a solution that would more or less fit one of 
the templates defined in grep.el.

See commit 4886b2e for something entirely different.

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