On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 11:48:07AM -0500, Michael McConville wrote: > Todd C. Miller wrote: > > On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 09:16:07 +0000, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > > I looked briefly at this and it wouldn't be that hard. However, > > > while it would be fantastic to clean up all the crap from less, it > > > isn't clear if Garrett D'Amore is going to be keeping his fork up to > > > date - if he doesn't then we are then left with a much harder job to > > > merge later changes from the original less. Unless we are happy to > > > fork and maintain less ourselves without an upstream. > > > > Would it really be so bad to consider less/more feature complete and > > only apply bug fixes? The only place I expect large changes would be > > in the UTF-8 support. > > It would be nice to be able to clean it up some. I often muse on the > fact that less is one of the first binaries to touch untrusted data on > my machines, and that it's known to be messy code.
I think we should move to the Illumos fork, it looks good. I've got it building easily enough, will take a look at porting our changes at some point.
