From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 3 8:52: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cerebus.nectar.com (nectar-gw.nectar.com [204.0.249.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A354A14C90 for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 08:52:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by cerebus.nectar.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA15888 for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 10:50:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from spawn.nectar.com(10.0.0.101) by cerebus.nectar.com via smap (V2.1) id xma015880; Sat, 3 Apr 99 10:49:55 -0600 Received: from spawn.nectar.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spawn.nectar.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA84516 for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 10:49:07 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Message-Id: <199904031649.KAA84516@spawn.nectar.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 X-Exmh-Isig-CompType: repl X-Exmh-Isig-Folder: lists/freebsd X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-rsa.txt X-PGP-DSSfprint: AB2F 8D71 A4F4 467D 352E 8A41 5D79 22E4 71A2 8C73 X-PGP-DHfprint: 2D50 12E5 AB38 60BA AF4B 0778 7242 4460 1C32 F6B1 X-PGP-DH-DSSkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-dh-dss.txt From: Jacques Vidrine In-reply-to: <3.0.5.32.19990403074908.00977100@localhost> References: <3.0.5.32.19990403074908.00977100@localhost> Subject: Re: GNU regex (Was: egcs knob and objective C) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 10:49:07 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 3 April 1999 at 7:49, "Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote: [snip] > If you mean a version of regex included in the LGPL'ed libc, > yes, then this point might be mute. However, if you mean > the regex/rx distributions, please, no. We're talking about gdb, so I mean the GNU regex implementation that is distributed as part of gdb. [snip] > I would suggest GNU regex be made ports unless some base > application required the -lgnuregex. As much as I would like to see us shipping only one regex implementation, and a BSD-style licensed one at that, some base applications require GNU regex, notably those found under src/gnu. However, as we import new things (a new GDB, a new CVS) perhaps we can try to drop the regex implementations that come with those, and use one that is already in the system. Then again, perhaps not. No telling what subtle bugs could be created by changing the regex implementation used in complex applications such as CVS. Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message