Re: gnome-regex

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes:

> Hi Gediminas,
> 
> On 5 Jul 2001, Gediminas Paulauskas wrote:
> > There is old code in libgnome which implements regular expression cache.
> > Neither grep in my cvs tree, nor LXR search does not indicate any usage
> > of gnome-regex API.
>   
>         Hmm.
> 
> > Either remove this feature completely (I see no point in putting it 
> > into libcompat), or have someone to fix it. There is some
> > glib/gcache.h, but it's very simple, maybe not useful...
>  
>         I think the larger, and less useful the API we support - the
> greater the maintenance / documentation headache we are going to have in   
> the future. I'm all for pruning these files [ and making libgnome even    
> thinner ... ].
> 
>         Anyone else ? - Jacob, where was your analysis of the usefulness
> of each of the gnome-libs files ? perhaps we can do some large scale
> broken API culling ?

Oh, thanks for remembering me. I think I already wanted to remove this a long
time ago, but then just forgot about it.

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Martin Baulig
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