Re: [Beaver-devel] Search algorithms

[Michael Terry]

Leslie Polzer wrote:
> I fully agree with you - grep was the first thing coming to my mind when
> I read the first few lines of your post. A configure option
> '--without-grep' and later a fallback may be nice, though. I cannot think
> of a UNIX system without grep, but I can think of lots of systems where
> grep is not as functional as GNU grep. We should therefore make careful
> use of GNU grep's capabilities and check with other greps in regards of
> output format and functionality.

Any UNIX system is guaranteed to have grep.  The question, as you say, 
is what flags are supported.  Well, this UNIX specification document I 
found, http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/grep.html, 
lists all the completely common flags.  It seems like we can do what we 
want with these flags alone.

I'm not so concerned with supporting a fallback -- I mean, we can just 
say that Beaver requires grep/sed.  That seems like a very easy-to-meet 
requirement.

> For the expand/collapse
> functionality there should be a GtkTreeView of course.

Yes.

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