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[bug#29880] [PATCH] gnu: grep: Add PCRE support.
From: |
Roel Janssen |
Subject: |
[bug#29880] [PATCH] gnu: grep: Add PCRE support. |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 12:23:09 +0100 |
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Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Hello,
>
> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> 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