Re: diff(1)

From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman (green_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 09/17/04

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    Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:12:40 -0400
To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>

    On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 01:05:49PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
    > In message: <16715.4611.108597.354107@piglet.timing.com>
    > Ben Mesander <ben@timing.com> writes:
    > : I've recently done a port of OpenBSD diff(1) to FreeBSD for
    > : licensing reasons (the diff(1) in base FreeBSD is GPL licensed),
    > : OpenBSD has a BSD-style license).
    > :
    > : I was going to work with Warner to see if I could get this into
    > : the ports collection. But we were also curious to see if other
    > : people thought it might be OK to replace the GNU diff in base
    > : with the OpenBSD diff.
    > :
    > : For reference, here is the OpenBSD diff source and manpage:
    > : http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/diff/
    > :
    > : There would also have to be some integration with other programs
    > : (such as diff3(1)).
    >
    > Needless to say, I think this is an excellent idea. I'm happy to do
    > the leg work to get this into the tree, so that's not an issue. :-)
    >
    > OpenBSD's diff is much smaller than gnu's. It seems to use less
    > memory as well for many operations. Its speed seems about the same.
    > Most of these impressions are based on light testing, so YMMV.
    >
    > This would be in keeping with our march to get rid of other gnu
    > products in our tree: awk, sort, etc.

    So if we get rid of three GNU, can we get one SCO (cscope)?

    But seriously, is this better than ports/textproc/freegrep which
    "should" have been the FreeBSD grep years ago? 

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