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updated minised (1.15 -> 1.16)
author Hans-G?nter Theisgen
date Sat Apr 09 14:44:11 2022 +0100 (2022-04-09)
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     1.4 +Mini-sed is a smaller, cheaper, faster SED implementation.
     1.5 +Minix uses it. GNU used to use it, until they built their own sed
     1.6 +around an extended (some would say over-extended) regexp package.
     1.7 +
     1.8 +For embedded use we searched for a tiny sed implementation especially
     1.9 +for use with the dietlibc and found Eric S. Raymond's sed implementation
    1.10 +quite handy.
    1.11 +Though it suffered several bugs and was not under active maintenance
    1.12 +anymore. After sending a bunch of fixes we agreed to continue maintaining
    1.13 +this lovely, historic sed implementation.
    1.14 +
    1.15 +Along a lot of fixes and cleanups, further speedups, and some missing
    1.16 +features and POSIX conformance, we also added a test-suite to the package,
    1.17 +so regressions are quickly and easily uncovered.