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[bug#29880] [PATCH] gnu: grep: Add PCRE support.
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#29880] [PATCH] gnu: grep: Add PCRE support. |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 09:54:56 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) |
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?
Ludo’.