'Twas brillig, and Maarten Bosmans at 08/09/11 09:16 did gyre and gimble: > 2011/9/5 Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi>: >> On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 11:43 +0200, Colin Guthrie wrote: >>> * module-match should require pcre support, not be optional (i.e. it >>> should behave consistently, and not be build-time feature specific >>> (Tanu, you may have comments about this? Want to overrule this >>> recommendation?) >> >> No, I don't really have any opinions regarding this. I don't know why we >> support two regexp libraries. > > After talking with Colin about this on IRC, I now get this point. > > The thing is, the dependency on pcre was added to make regex > functionality available for win32. On all other platforms the posix > regex.h is available and that one is used. (even if pcre is available, > if I'm correct) > > So there is no inconsistent behaviour here, other than a difference > between Linux and Windows, where a regex difference is trivial > compared to other differences. Yup, completely ACK this one. Let's not make any changes here. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
