bug#17246: grep-2.19 planning

[Jim Meyering]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Il 13/05/2014 16:22, Paul Eggert ha scritto:
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>> Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>
>>> Can we first agree on the revert then?
>>
>>
>> No, let's move forward not backward.
>
>
> Ok, then is the release stalled?

Hi Paolo,

This issue was never a release blocker.

As far as I was concerned, the only prerequisite for switching back
to binary-based egrep and fgrep was a patch to implement that.
A week ago, I would have been very receptive to a change that
reintroduced those binaries (presented with or without a reverting
commit), but I am about to make another pre-release snapshot,
so even if you had the patch right now, I would be reluctant to
accept it.

Jim