Re: cgrep for basesystem?

[uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valery Ushakov)]

Simon Burge <simonb%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

>> I find this program useful, however it should be refreshed or rewritten
>> for modern times. Its switches and usage is not compatible with modern
>> grep(1) and the implementation is pretty simplistic.
>>
>> If someone would be interested to pick this project it would be great.
>> Personally, due to lack of extra time in the foreseeable time, I use
>> this program locally and I don't find it suitable in the current form
>> for base.
> 
> Why base and not pkgsrc?  FWIW, there's already a (I assume different)
> cgrep in pkgsrc in the textproc/hs-cgrep pkg src.

Ditto.  I'm strongly opposed to adding it to base.

-uwe