On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
From what I can see, The stable version is 2.5.3 and this option has been available since 2.5.2 ( The ChangeLog says it was added 2006-08-19 )
From: http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/devel.html "The latest stable release of GNU grep is "2.5.1a"."
But maybe this page is out of date?
According to this page: http://directory.fsf.org/project/grep/ 2.5.3 stable released 2007-08-03 * Released: 3 Aug, 2007 * Code Maturity: Stable
For some strange reason, 2.5.2 seems to be missing from the source archives at ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/grep/ so maybe it had a bad bug or something.
It seems only Mandriva devel, OpenPKG and OpenSuSE (not SuSE) have 2.5.2 or later (although rpmfind isn't the best way of checking this ;-)).
I'm running OpenSuSE-10.3, so I guess that explains why I have it.
- Jeff