Consider merging efforts with another project

[ArtikusHG]

While looking for a rust implementation of sed, I found this project: https://github.com/vyavdoshenko/red/

It is also a rust implementation of sed, also MIT licensed, but seems to have full compatibility with GNU sed. It would be nice if this project could be picked up by the uutils team, because right now, it appears to be maintained by a single guy. It would also benefit this project - seems like this implementation is far more complete in terms of GNU compatibility.

[oech3]

cc @vyavdoshenko

[vyavdoshenko]

I’ve spent a significant amount of time working toward full compatibility with GNU sed, aiming for 100% behavioral parity. That was the primary focus, and I believe I got quite far in that direction.

That said, performance is an area that still needs a lot of work and continuous improvement.

At the moment, I unfortunately don’t have enough time or resources to actively continue development on this project. I’d be very happy to see others step in and help push it forward - especially in terms of performance and further refinements.

[sylvestre]

Well done!
However, i am not sure how we could merge the two efforts :/

[ArtikusHG]

Well just my two cents here, I've replaced GNU sed with red on my personal system with uutils-coreutils and everything seems to be working fine so far. Considering that, I think a good approach would be to adopt code from red under the uutils umbrella and keep iterating on it (for example, addressing said performance improvements). That being said, I'm not the dev here, so again, just my opinion - all I wanted to do was inform you about this project that could possibly be helpful

[vyavdoshenko]

If you’re willing to take over this project, I’d be happy to hand it over to you.

[sylvestre]

Sorry, i'missed your message. Let's discuss :) I will send you an email

[sylvestre]

with @vyavdoshenko we worked on the transfer under the uutils umbrella: https://github.com/uutils/red/
now, we need to figure out how to handle the merge of the two projects

[oech3]

add benchmark.yml and GnuTests to red at 1st and move missing compolents from uutils/sed?

[Franklin-Qi]

@sylvestre @oech3 @vyavdoshenko @ArtikusHG I could help merge these two projects. Should our merging strategy be to port the red code to awk?

[oech3]

Why awk?!

[Franklin-Qi]

Sorry, the question should be whether to merge the red code into sed?