Hi,
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:29:00AM +0100, Julian Foad wrote:
> > Big regex.[ch] update from latest glibc CVS libc/posix/.
>
> It's not appropriate to use the latest development version of some code.
> Use the latest officially released version. (Maybe that's what you meant,
> but it doesn't sound like it.) If the latest released version isn't
> useable, please discuss. Not using officially released versions of
> software nearly always leads to trouble at some time.
In general, you are right. But not in this case. The development of
regex in glibc is not wild, there are just bug fixes.
And there is no point in missing a few non-risky bug fixes which are only
in the latest CVS.
And we plan to do active development of regex in the future on our side;
that will have to be done relative to latest source.
And, AFAIK, gawk and sed use latest code from glibc CVS, too.
So I think that _in this case_ we should use the CVS version.
Have a nice day,
Stepan
