I originally built a cut-down version of PCRE into Exim because PCRE was new and not widely available. This has now changed; quite a lot of OS/distributions include it. In the very long term, perhaps Exim should be changed to use a standarly installed version of PCRE.
I do *not* want to propose that at this time (especially not for a 'point release'). However, there is a halfway stage. Exim has always included a copy of the PCRE testing program, pcretest, which gets built alongside Exim. I suspect that very few people discover and use this version. As part of installing PCRE 6.0[*] into Exim, it would make things easier to drop pcretest from the Exim distribution, and simply include the bare minimum that Exim needs. Any objections? Philip ----------------------- [*] The source files have been rearranged, and are more numerous in PCRE 6.0. Several could be omitted if pcretest isn't being built. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
