Re: GRegex API

[Scott Wimer <scottw dev cgibuilder com>]

Jeff,

I'd like to see PCRE get shipped as part of the Glib bundle.  However,
I don't know if everybody will feel this way (I guess that sort of
depends on how useful an API GRegex provides ;>).

While the packaging is being sorted out, I suspect that I will create
a GRegex bundle that includes the most up-to-date version of PCRE.
I will also create a gregex-config program for making it super
simple to link in GRegex.  Eventually, I suspect that GRegex will be
subsumed into Glib (where I think it really belongs).

That's my thoughts on what I sort of suspect will occur.

Regards,
scottwimer

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Scott Wimer wrote:
> > I've been doing some work on a nice wrapper around the wonderful
> > regex implementation in PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expression).
> 
> I really like the API (PCRE is used frequently in some of my code).  My
> only concern is one of packaging.
> 
> Glib provides services that are generally assumed to always be
> available.  This would imply either disabling GRegex when PCRE is not
> present, or adding PCRE as a Glib dependency.  A third option is to
> bundle PCRE with Glib.  The first two make Glib less standalone in
> nature, and are less appealing.
> 
> 	Jeff
> 
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