On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 01:16:52PM -0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
> Is this a perfectly drop-in compatible replacement from a user
point of
> view?
The user that executes "grep -P"? Not many changes. Usually a corner
cases that have a different performance or exhibit bug fixes.
Yeah, that's the user I'm concerned with in this case, since _we're_ the one
switching the library. I'm imagining users with scripts written by a
sysadmin or grad student fifteen years ago which happen to use `grep -P`
suddenly and mysteriously doing the wrong thing.
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader