Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 05:54:22 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Sergey Lyubka <valenok@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pcre in base system Message-ID: <20050217185422.GJ57256@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <72c3a957050217065223729f83@mail.gmail.com> References: <72c3a957050217031230598f63@mail.gmail.com> <86zmy3qmm2.wl%sf@FreeBSD.org> <72c3a957050217065223729f83@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2005-Feb-17 14:52:05 +0000, Sergey Lyubka wrote: >Anyway, the last call is yours, guys committers. >If you decide to do this pcre thing, I am willing to >provide a patch for both sed and pcre. In terms of effort, putting new software into the base system and patching other utilities to use it should be fairly trivial. The major effort is maintaining it - validating and updating to new releases. Are you willing to provide ongoing maintenance for a pcre import? Based on the NetBSD thread, pcre also has an area where it is not POSIX compliant (and does not plan to become POSIX compliant) and does not provide BREs. This may present a sticking point. Overall, I'd prefer to see the base system become more minimal with greater reliance on ports. An interesting approach could be to break out regex(3) from libc and allow base utilities to use shared libraries from ports - this would allow someone to install the pcre port and have the base sed(1) use it. -- Peter Jeremy
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