Re: Plans for 1.3/1.4

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sat, Feb 27, 1999 at 02:12:22PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > I wanted to get things rolling with planning for the
> > 1.3 development series of GTK+ and 1.4.
> 
> Along those lines, what are people thinking about Glib 1.3 changes?
> 
> I am interested in adding some ADTs, and already have a little bit of
> code, stack and queue ADTs, in the GLIB_1_3_HACKS branch.  Below are
> rough notes on my ideas.
> 
> Comments and suggestions on the APIs of these new ADTs would be greatly
> appreciated.

how about a regex implementation ... it would be nice to have a portable and
easy to use regex api in glib ... it doesn't have to be extremely
sophisticated ... Ian already made some api and I think there was another one
as well ...

I've been told that posix regex isn't really portable ... is it possible to
check for a sane regex with autoconf and if there isn't a sane one, use an
internal implementation (which could be "stolen" from glibc I guess) ...
Ian's api using posix regex was pretty thin ... (but nicer to use then posix)
... so if the platform has a sane behaving regex, we don't have to worry
about bloat

regex was one thing I still find missing in glib ...

George

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