On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > Hi Jim, > > Among the news for grep 3.12: > > > On Windows platforms and on AIX in 32-bit mode, grep now supports > > Unicode characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane. > > I wouldn't claim this, since the support is not yet complete. To make > it complete, the Gnulib 'regex' module needs to switch from 'wchar_t' > to 'char32_t' as well. I have started work on this, but it's not > ready for consumption yet, since I plan(ned) to strengthen the unit > tests of the 'regex' module first, and that is a major undertaking. > > But maybe I should change the plan and instead of strengthening the unit > tests inside gnulib, just make the change and use grep's tests on Cygwin, > to verify the result. (On glibc platforms where wchar_t and char32_t > are of the same size and same semantics, the changes will be a no-op > anyway.) > > With that changed plan, the stated improvement could be ready in > two weeks. Would you agree with that changed plan? Would you be willing > to delay the grep-3.12 release by two weeks, to include the completion > of this feature?
Hi Bruno, Thanks for the offer. Part of the motivation for the quick release is to give Debian's trixie a chance to include a newer grep. That window will close soon, maybe on April 15, per https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html It's been long enough since the preceding release that I am being perhaps over-optimistic to aim to release in just a few days, but it feels like a worthwhile goal. I've added Anibal Monsalve Salazar (debian grep maintainer) to the recipient list: Anibal, what do you think about getting an eventual grep-3.12 into trixie? If there's a chance, what is the deadline? Thanks, Jim
