On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Philip Guenther <[email protected]> wrote:
> Let's think about what you're proposing: "we added -o as an extension,
> but now we want a *different* -o, so let's shuffle the extensions
> (breaking anything using them) so that people can depend on a
> different extension"  This doesn't make sense to me.

Which set is bigger?  The users/scripts using GNU grep that will in
the future use OpenBSD, or the users/scripts currently using this
option on OpenBSD?  I guess we should introduce a scale factor for the
set we care more about... :)

> I'm opposed to this.  Sorry, Ted.

I had earlier claimed it was a 10 line diff, so it was just an
exercise to see if I was right.  I think counting new code only I got
it pretty close.  I'm not attached to the option or the diff.  mu.

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