bug#17246: grep-2.19 planning

[Jim Meyering]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Il 11/04/2014 21:04, Jim Meyering ha scritto:
>
>> I would like to plan for a release in a couple of weeks.  Paolo,
>> you seemed to be motivated to work on an egrep/fgrep alternative.
>> I am happy with including shell scripts for grep-2.19, but if you feel
>> strongly about it and are preparing a patch, let me know.
>
>
> I am motivated, but I am also on vacation. :)
>
> Can't we just apply the revert that I posted?

Hi Paolo,
Sorry, but like Paul, I do not want to revert to the prior state.
First, it is cleaner to separate the wrappers for obsolescent egrep
and fgrep from grep's internals. In addition, I have a strong bias for
coding only for reasonable portability targets.  While I am not
convinced that a system lacking any type of shell constitutes a
reasonable portability target, I am willing to accommodate, if
someone else does the work to prepare a complete patch.