It seems Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Jamie Howard (howar...@wam.umd.edu), with a little help from yours > truly, has written a BSD-licensed version of grep(1) which has all the > functionality of our current (GPLed) implementation, plus a little > more, in one seventh the source code and one fourth the binary code. > What's more, the code is actually possible for mere mortals to read > and understand. > > The source code is available for download from freefall: > > <URL:http://www.freebsd.org/~des/software/grep-0.7.tar.gz> > > I move that we replace GNU grep in our source tree with this > implementation, once it's been reviewed by all concerned parties.
Go for it, the more GNU stuff we nuke the better :) -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
