[Anjuta-list] [RFC] PCRE dependency

[Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <biswapesh_chatterjee tcscal co in>]

Guys:

Would it be a problem if PCRE was made a dependency ? Basically, I'm
planning on writing an Autotools manager (to better handle automake
projects with multiple targets) and it seems it would be tricky without
PCRE (since automake/autoconf are written using Perl and use a lot of
Perl regexps which I'd like to reuse directly). I can get it working
(somewhat) with POSIX regexps but that's likely to be more work and less
accurate.

I know what with Python, libglade, etc. we're becoming dependent on more
and more external packages but it seems stupid not to use something
which seems to be small, portable and readily available.

As a bonus, we might get a really powerful multi-file search/replace
functionality (ala regexxer).

You can get PCRE from http://www.pcre.org/

Thanks in advance.

Rgds,
Biswa.