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Re: GNU texinfo 4.2 and egrep/fgrep
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: GNU texinfo 4.2 and egrep/fgrep |
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Sun, 2 Jun 2002 08:11:52 +0300 (IDT) |
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 address@hidden wrote:
> You can say that POSIX will stop making gratuitious incompatibilities
> with features that are 25 years old and that the whole world depends on!
> Losing egrep is even worse than deprecating cp -r. What are they
> thinking? This is not moving forwards, they're taking giant steps backwards.
FWIW, I fully agree. Breaking back-compatibility is a Bad Thing; it
should not be done without a _very_ good reason. And I see no such
reason in this case.