Re: [bug-grep] Applying outstanding patches

[Claudio Fontana]

Hello,

--- Julian Foad <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have finally got around to spending some time on
> Grep, and have started by 
> going through the issues in the Savannah tracker and
> resolving those that are 
> easy to resolve.  This includes applying patches
> that are simple and/or 
> testable and that won't get in the way of applying
> some of the larger patches 
> that are waiting.
> 
> Stepan Kasal wrote: "Our main goal for grep 2.5.2 is
> to get sane performance 
> with utf-8."  While that is an important issue, my
> main goal for the short term 
> is to fix as many correctness bugs as can be fixed
> without making very large 
> (and therefore inherently dangerous) changes.

I would suggest freezing the Red Hat UTF8 speedup
patch. I studied it with attention and it addresses a
real performance problem, but I think it needs some
restructuring to avoid code dups, and generalize some
functionality in appropriate functions to be more
maintenable in the future.

>  After
> that, to work on code 
> restructuring etc. which will help us to fix the
> more difficult bugs.
> 
> What I need is for us to review the patches that are
> already available and 
> decide which ones are ready to apply and which ones
> are not.  I believe that we 
> consider all of the Red Hat patches to be good and
> ready to apply.  Is this 
> right?  I am going to start applying them soon.

Could you wait just some days?
I was occupied trying to find a decent job, but I have
some changes to the existing Red Hat patches that I
would like to submit for review.

Claudio




                
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