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Related on the same site that just got posted today: > This change is pointless make-work inflicted on the broad open source ecology by GNU Grep. GNU Grep's de
by throw0101b 3y ago
Related on the same site that just got posted today:
> This change is pointless make-work inflicted on the broad open source ecology by GNU Grep. GNU Grep's decision to cause these long-standing commands to emit new messages requires everyone else to go through making changes in order to return to the status quo. This is exactly the same kind of make work as other pointless API changes, and just like them it's hostile to the broad open source ecology.
* https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/GNUGrepVersusEcology https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/GNUGrepVersus...
- JdeBP 3y agoFor contemporary discussion of this back in April, including where I dug up the Debian patches and Paul Eggert's take on this, and Rob Landley's statement about ToyBox fgrep and egrep, see https://mastodon.social/@cks/110232377928840323 https://mastodon.social/@cks/110232377928840323 .
- JdeBP 3y agoAnd see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36173519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36173519 .