I personally find much interesting the last discussion, as a general rpm
improvement of course. Maybe at a certain historical moment the battle tar
vs star was due to selinux problems (xtattr and the like). It is obviously
a hypothesis. But maybe these problems that were present are not such
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Jeff Johnson wrote:
A little reading indicates that I have inadvertently worded
my question re a PCRE - POSIX conversion implementation
incorrectly.
...
I was hoping that the _SYNTAX_ can be interconverted for a
significant subset of all possible PCRE - POSIX
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, R P Herrold wrote:
wtf ??? These two block qoutes got recormatted by alpine
1.10, or the ML software ... gr
[ Perl has a more predictable and much richer syntax than the [ POSIX basic
(BRE) and extended (ERE) regular expression [ standards. ... other utilities
I know that PCRE and POSIX are functionally equivalent.
But can the interconversion between PCRE - POSIX regexes be automated?
I'd love a general have it your own way RE interconversion
rather than have to choose either PCRE or POSIX regex dialect.
rpm got enuf Chauvinism problems in the
Jeff Johnson wrote:
I know that PCRE and POSIX are functionally equivalent.
But can the interconversion between PCRE - POSIX regexes be
automated?
I'd love a general have it your own way RE interconversion
rather than have to choose either PCRE or POSIX regex dialect.
rpm got enuf
On Apr 18, 2008, at 8:09 PM, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
Jeff Johnson wrote:
I know that PCRE and POSIX are functionally equivalent.
But can the interconversion between PCRE - POSIX regexes be
automated?
I'd love a general have it your own way RE interconversion
rather than have to choose
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
Hey speaking of wars, let's provide another excuse to put
PCRE into LSB :-) (I've already been thinking about that,
FWIW)
Bad Mats; bad bad Mats
:-)
-- Russ herrold
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