On 4/27/05, Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I'm exploring the usage of regexp?|pcre calls in dbmail. I'm working on > the fast threading code, but it'll come in handy in many other areas I > suspect. > > Still I'm somewhat worried regex/regexp will to lead to a portability > nightmare and don't even provide particularly strong functionality. Pcre > does so but is not a standard.
What are the advantages of using pcre? I see that quite some projects ( Python, Apache, PHP, KDE, Postfix, nmap) are using this library. There must be something good in there, I reckon. > > Can we include yet another build-time dependency? Any showstoppers for > pcre? Include a full source perhaps like we do for iniparser? If we start using this, including the source would be nice. The best way to go would IMHO be to be able to compile with the pcre lib we provide OR with an already installed pcre library. Ilja
