Not for performance reasons specifically, no. I've only had a few requests for regular expression support, so it hasn't been high on my list of priorities. Implementing regular expressions also requires another external library, which make cross-platform support more challenging.
The biggest reason, however, is that it makes the configuration (and documentation) more complex. Most folks don't really understand regexps, so I believe there would be a lot of confusion and frustration if spamdyke used them (consider especially the dot-matches-any-character rule). I haven't seen enough evidence that the feature is worth the extra pain. That doesn't mean I'm opposed to them, just that it needs to be implemented carefully and that the effort will be justified. -- Sam Clippinger Felix Buenemann wrote: > Hi Sam, > > I wonder wether there is a specific reason not to use regular > expressions via the PCRE lib to match patterns in blacklist files etc. > > Has this been avoided for performance reasons? > > -- Felix Buenemann > > _______________________________________________ > spamdyke-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users > _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
