Hi, If it's of any help, I used the pcrecpp library by Google (it's part of PCRE). With pcrecpp, most operations were only 1-3 lines long. The only problem I found is PCRE provided no way to get the previous/next match, which CMake needs.
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Alexandru Ciobanu <a...@rogue-research.com> wrote: > Hi Bill and Pau, > > I am currently working on adding PCRE to CMake. Chances are very hight that > it will work, given the very similar comp()/exec() API calls in both > implementations. > > I'll let you know about the results soon. > > Alex > > > On 2011-11-14, at 10:31 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote: > >> On 11/14/2011 6:08 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: >>> Bill, >>> >>> I think the current incarnation of regexps in CMake should be kept for >>> compatibility reasons. >>> >> Yes, of course. >> >>> Adding PCRE is not difficult, just time consuming. The implementation >>> I'd do would be an additional abstraction layer: >>> - For the current BRE implementation, it would be a 1:1 call match >>> - For the PCRE implementation, it would keep match status, count, >>> next/previous iterators, etc. >>> >> So, for this case I would be interested to here from Alex to see if swapping >> out the regex will fix the ctest performance issue. It is a nice isolated >> place to give PCRE a try. >> >> -Bill >> -- >> >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: >> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers > > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
