Re: libpcre: external dependency for gnome-system-monitor?

[Marco Barisione <marco barisione org>]

Il giorno mar, 08/05/2007 alle 18.26 -0400, Claudio Saavedra ha scritto:
> gnome-system-monitor is  not buildable without libpcre. Is this a
> required external dependence or what?

This was discussed some months ago[1], PCRE was not a blessed external
dependency and probably nothing has changed since then as the list of
dependencies[2] does not contain it.

In the meantime glib 2.13 was released and it includes regular
expression support using PCRE. glib can be compiled to use the
system-installed PCRE library but the preferred solution is to use the
internal copy, so IMHO gnome-system-monitor should be ported to use
GRegex.

[1]
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-October/msg00478.html
[2] http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNineteen/ExternalDependencies

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