Anyone want to help with a friendly fork of this project? about the_silver_searcher HOT 6 OPEN

@sten0 Hi there!

In short, yes, I do think so, especially in light of this.

I'll see what plan I can come up with in, say, another week or so.

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I agree with all your points, and I'm willing to help.
My personal itch is to merge into the main project the changes I had to do to make ag.exe a good Windows citizen.
A prerequisite for that is to restructure my Systems Tools Library as a components that may be included in Ag as a subproject, instead of being duplicated inline as I do now.
The good news is that I retired from HPE a few months ago, so I have a lot more time now :-)

For the CI/CD testing, I think GitHub can now natively do anything you want using GitHub Actions.
The only CI/CD system I'm familiar with is Jenkins. I've never used GitHub Actions, but I'm not too anxious about learning to use it.
I don't think we have to move to a new host environment like GitLab for that. (Although I don't mind moving if you think it's worth it.)

Jean-François

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Hey Jeffery, I'm honored to be apparently prominent enough to be included here :)

I think you've got noble goals and a good plan laid out here; it'd be nice to see ag live on as a usable portable tool. I hacked at ag a bunch because it was a tool I used all the time and it gave me a ton of experience learning autoconf/automake and working on a C project of nontrivial but manageable size.

That said, I've pretty much entirely migrated to ripgrep (except in cygwin) and don't expect to have the time or motivation to continue actively maintaining an ag fork. I may be available to help with or answer questions about particulars, if needed.

If you (or anyone, really) would like to adopt or port anything from my fork, you're certainly welcome to it. Consider all my commits in https://github.com/aswild/the_silver_searcher to be released under the Apache 2.0 license. Attribution, e.g. by preserving git author info when cherry-picking or a line in changelogs, would be appreciated but not required.

Cheers,
Allen

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#1257 is now a grave issue for Debian and every derivative Bug#999962 silversearcher-ag: depends on obsolete pcre3 library. I'm thankful to @aswild for solving it in his fork 😄

@johnsonjh, @JFLarvoire, do you think you'll pick up the baton in the next six months, or should we all start writing ripgrep compatibility wrappers, while falling back to ACK on platforms that don't have great Rust support?

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@sten0 Hi there!

Hi @johnsonjh! 😄

In short, yes, I do think so, especially in light of this.

Thank you, it's sincerely appreciated.

I'll see what plan I can come up with in, say, another week or so.

How did it go?

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Sorry, been busy..

I see the libpcre3 was removed from Debian sid, so, I guess we better get going soon, huh? I'm wrapping up this project now, thankfully, better late than never, so I can visit this soon.

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