Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:44:47 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, tjr@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replacing FreeBSD's -lgnuregex with GNUlib's version Message-ID: <20060926184447.GA17862@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <200609261302.40964.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> References: <200609202304.25537@aldan> <20060921154412.GA59729@nagual.pp.ru> <200609261302.40964.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 01:02:40PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Any news on this? I basically look at locale stuff, they sypport multibyte which is good. Someone must test its compatibility with GNU regex and understand in details nature of their changes/fixes/differences. Without this work we can't blindly replace stable code with unknown one just for reason it is actively maintained. > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:04:24PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > > A recent discussion on the gm4 and gnulib mailing lists over the merits > > > of gm4's bundling of its own regex implementation has produced the > > > suggestion, that we replace our src/gnu/lib/libregex (which is currently > > > obtained from fedora-glibc-2_3_4-21) with gnulib's implementation. > > > > > > The latter is claimed to be more actively maintained and with more bug > > > fixes, than glibc people have managed to incorporate. > > > > > > Does anyone have a strong preference for fedora/glibc implementation > > > currently in use, or should we follow this advice (source -- regex' > > > maintainer for gnulib -- CC-ed) and switch over? > > > > Please point to gnulib's regex sources to compare with. -- http://ache.pp.ru/
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