Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 16:41:36 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Christopher Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Grep 2.1 uploaded
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On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Christopher Croughton wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> > > Where can I get the patches for these?
> > 
> > Currently, you can't.  A minor release 2.1.1 is planned in the nearest 
> > future, so you might as well wait a bit.  
> 
> Any idea how far is 'nearest'?

No.

> If it's a week or two then no problem, if 
> it's much more than that I'll do the diffs.

The diffs are minimal, so you might as well do them.  OTOH, Grep 2.1 has 
no dignificant improvements compared to 2.0, so you might consider 
building 2.0.

> Also, how serious are the 
> bugs?  The one you mentioned didn't seem too bad (something about not
> detecting a nonexistent file?).

"grep foobar non-existing-file" exits with no error message.  It might 
dupe you into thinking that the file doesn't have matching lines, e.g. if 
you mistype a name of an existing file.  Could be quite bad in some 
cases.

(There's another minor bug, but that's so rare that it isn't worth 
mentioning.)