[BusyBox] bug#1002: BusyBox] bug#1002: Fix

Matt Kraai kraai at alumni.carnegiemellon.edu
Tue Jul 11 00:32:33 UTC 2000


On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 01:23:58PM -0600, Mark Whitley wrote:
> The bottom line here is that I feel badly that we've bumped heads and
> duplicated efforts. In hindsight I should have warned everyone that I would
> be revamping sed/regexp (which I kind of did but I still could have
> communicated it a bit more clearly).

It's my fault for not checking to see that you were already working on
it.  Erik told me this morning and I figured I'd try and beat you to it.

> How does this sound for a "plan of action" from here:
> 
>  - Removing the superfluous inclusion of regexp.h from find.c is a gimme, I'll
>    do that right away.
>  - I'll integrate my new sed into busybox.
>  - I'll axe regexp.[ch] completely; if there's anything that needs to be
>    salvaged, I'll put it in utility.c.
>  - Then we can put common/useful libc-regex routines into utility.c that can
>    be used by grep and sed (and anyone else), such as your regexp_compile, and
>    regexp_subst.
> 
> Does that sound good?

Sounds good to me.  I don't think regexp_subst needs to be extracted
though, as it is only used by sed.

Matt
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