On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > >> One big problem here is that the user will doubtless expect to have full >> Perl regular expressions. That will mean another compile-time dependency. >> And maybe also a run-time dependency if a shared library is used (as most >> distribution packages managers will likely require). Suddenly, Fossil >> becomes much less stand-alone and self-contained. >> >> When I get around to working on this, perhaps I'll compromise and use a >> simpler Posix Extended Regular Expression library that can be compiled in, >> and thus avoid the extra dependencies. >> > > i know this topic is a bit dated now, but this might be of interest: > > https://code.google.com/p/lua-regex-standalone/ > > a small, standalone implementation of regexes ported out of the LUA > sources. Has a MIT license. > Fossil already has http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/c8fb75a1615f?ln=21-23 and the "test-grep" command. I didn't know about the LUA regexp library - I will investigate it though. I was > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > http://gplus.to/sgbeal > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org
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