Ilja Booij wrote:

> 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.

There's no comparison really... Virtually unlimited branching,
back-references, utf8, standard pattern syntax, named groups, etc, etc...

>>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.

Sounds reasonable...


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