On 20.09.2012 23:42, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 02:30:30PM -0700, Bert Huijben wrote: >> Fnmatch support is in apr(-util?) and has known access/performance patterns, >> so we might be able to move the search handling to the server in the future >> for performance reasons. >> >> Complete regular expression support would at least require using a new third >> party library and moving it to the server is not really possible because >> complete regular expression processing can be way to expensive. > What he said. I was about to write the same response :) > > I *did* search for regex stuff in APR and other existing dependencies > and then settled on fnmatch. httpd has a regex engine but it's not > part of APR for some reason. I wouldn't have a problem using that > in the client if it were available, but it isn't.
HTTPD uses PCRE, which has a BSD license. We could use it, but I'd prefer to have a much better reason for doing so. (e.g., "svn grep" could be such a reason) -- Brane -- Certified & Supported Apache Subversion Downloads: http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download
