On 08/02/2018 05:42 PM, enh wrote:> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 1:56 PM Rob Landley <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I see > > http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2018-August/009585.html > but never got a copy through the list, I'm guessing gmail bounced it as > spam. > > > did you see my several recent "ping" emails for other patches?
I did not, same problem with gmail's spam filter. But I have a backlog of 'em now... > but you're right, here's someone else's mdev patch that i don't think i saw on > the list: > http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2018-July/009574.html I got that one. > The problem with adding perl regex support to toybox grep is we use libc's > regex. I can add a config option to pull in another library, but don't > know > what's out there for this? > > well, PCRE would be the obvious choice :-) and it was tempting to me because > -- > via selinux -- it's in every process on Android anyway. but -P wasn't the > goal. > removing the unmaintained (by us) BSD code and switching to some project that > is > maintained was my goal. and in terms of options pcre2grep seemed closer to > complete. > > but, yeah, if you finish toybox grep i can contribute a PCRE -P if you want > it :-) I'm hoping to get gzip wired up to the local deflate code today, and I need to deal with the above backlog (including the urandom breakage and some pull requests I fell behind on github). But I'll put that next in the queue, lemme see if I can get that in this release... Thanks, Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
