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#29880
[PATCH] gnu: grep: Add PCRE support.
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Reported by: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust <at> gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 19:52:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #17 received at 29880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Hello,
>
> Roel Janssen <roel <at> gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> I have been maintaining a separate package for grep with PCRE support
>> for the users on our cluster. What I would like to add is that at least
>> Debian and RedHat enable PCRE in their grep versions. So using Guix's
>> grep broke some scripts.
>>
>> If compatibility with other GNU/Linux distributions counts for anything,
>> I'd say we should enable it. I am in favor of enabling PCRE.
>
> OK, that makes sense.
>
>> We could provide a separate version of grep without PCRE as a
>> grep-minimal.
>
> Alternately, what we could do is:
>
> 1. Keep ‘grep-final’ as it is right now (without PCRE support; this
> has never been a problem so far.)
>
> 2. Add PCRE to ‘grep’ itself (like Oleg did).
>
> Thoughts?
Yes that seems fine to me.
Kind regards,
Roel Janssen
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