@elextr the annoying part is that it brings an extra bundled copy of GNU Regex 
for platforms that don't have `regcomp()` (Windows is the most obvious 
candidate), yet GLib already does something very similar to provide GRegex.  So 
on some situations we could end with 2 copies of it :confused: 

Currently we have a GRegex-based version of it, but it's not necessarily 100% 
compatible, and certainly doesn't have all the new stuff from upstream.  The 
question @techee raises is: is it worth maintaining this for the few parsers 
that use it?  What should we do?
To be fair, the most important use case for upstream is dynamic parser 
definition (with various command-line switches) allowing to create parsers 
fairly easily for fairly simple things (although it got more and more powerful 
lately) -- and we don't have support for this, at least not yet.

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