Re: glib regular expession api

[Daniel Elstner <daniel elstner gmx net>]

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 out of date).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.

> - I really want to make pcre use the glib unicode support 

That is probably a good reason though.

--Daniel