bug#17246: grep-2.19 planning

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 11:44:32 -0600
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > ..., as would a simple C file whose main 
> > function uses execlp to run the grep executable.
> 
> Except on platforms that don't *have* execlp...
> 
> I really think that moving to shell scripts is just making more
> work for yourselves:
> 
> - Users without a shell are going to be suprised / upset and are
>   going to complain.
> 
> - You wil have to spend time dealing with these bug reports and emails.
> 
> - You're planning to eventually do something for a C program anyway to
>   undo the shell scripts.
> 
> Why not revert the change, or use the new code from Norihiro, and avoid
> the headaches all around?
> 
> Then do another clean-up release after that.  The urgency to release
> RIGHT NOW seems to be self-induced, at least to me, looking in from the
> outside.
> 
> 'nuff said.

Hear, hear.