ack 2.0 is a text searching utility optimized for searching trees of source code.
ack requires Perl 5.8.8 or higher. Perl 5.8.8 was released January 2006.
# Required
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
sudo make install # for a system-wide installation (recommended)
# - or -
make ack-standalone
cp ack-standalone ~/bin/ack2 # for a personal installation
Development is not done on master. We use a dev branch named
dev
, and from there topic branches named for a specific topic.
master -> dev -> docs
\-> speedups
\-> issue473
The only time we merge dev
down to master
is when doing a
release. There are no branches off of master
other than dev
.