Re: glib regular expession api

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 11:44, Daniel Elstner wrote:
> Am Fr, den 04.06.2004 um 11:38 Uhr -0400 schrieb Matthias Clasen:
> > On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 11:25, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> > > >
> > > 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 out of date).
> > 
> > We need pcre included for two reasons:
> > - we need pcre to use the glib malloc routines (and I think 
> >   the pcre_malloc indirection is only compile-time, right ?)
> 
> No, pcre_malloc and pcre_free are global function pointer variables.

Ah, but setting them from glib would still be problematical, 
since apps may try to set them on their own.