Re: pkg/57970: pkgsrc textproc/nbsed is super old and doesn't support some things that modern seds support

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/57970; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/57970: pkgsrc textproc/nbsed is super old and doesn't
 support some things that modern seds support
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:07:15 +0000

 > (ironically, macOS's system sed supports the "in-place" options, pkgsrc's macOS configuration apparently feels that it's better to use nbsed instead, *shrug*).
 
 We've had to use pkgsrc sed on macOS since Mountain Lion, as the native
 sed is broken with binary files or UTF-8 locales.  It would be great if 
 we had a contact at Apple who could fix this, so we no longer need to 
 bootstrap nbsed ;-)
 
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