Re: glib regular expession api

[Andreas Rottmann <a rottmann gmx at>]

Daniel Elstner <daniel elstner gmx net> writes:

> Am Do, den 03.06.2004 um 21:00 Uhr -0400 schrieb Matthias Clasen:
>> Last night I've dusted off an old patch which adds regular expression
>> support based on PCRE to glib. Here is the api which I currently have.
>> Does this look reasonable ? The full patch is attached to bug 50075.
>
[snip]
>
> Also, I see you're using pcre_info() which is deprecated and has been
> replaced by pcre_fullinfo().  This probably doesn't matter much since a
> modified pcre will be shipped with GLib [...]
>
Why modified? And even if you ship prce, which is reasonable, it would
be nice to compile GLib gainst an external pcre; on systems where it
is available to compile it into GLib as well would be a waste (I think
e.g. Debian guys would prefer the external linkage, because of the
disk space and RAM waste, plus the pcre shipped with GLib might become
out of date).

Andy
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