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Subject: Re: replacing FreeBSD's -lgnuregex with GNUlib's version
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On Tuesday 26 September 2006 14:44, Andrey Chernov wrote:
= On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 01:02:40PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
= > Any news on this?
= 
= I basically look at locale stuff, they sypport multibyte which is good.
= 
= Someone must test its compatibility with GNU regex and understand in 
= details nature of their changes/fixes/differences. Without this work we 
= can't blindly replace stable code with unknown one just for reason it is 
= actively maintained.

What kind of test would be deemed sufficient?

	-mi

= > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:04:24PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
= > > > A recent discussion on the gm4 and gnulib mailing lists over the
= > > > merits of gm4's bundling of its own regex implementation has produced
= > > > the suggestion, that we replace our src/gnu/lib/libregex (which is
= > > > currently obtained from fedora-glibc-2_3_4-21) with gnulib's
= > > > implementation.
= > > >
= > > > The latter is claimed to be more actively maintained and with more bug
= > > > fixes, than glibc people have managed to incorporate.
= > > >
= > > > Does anyone have a strong preference for fedora/glibc implementation
= > > > currently in use, or should we follow this advice (source -- regex'
= > > > maintainer for gnulib -- CC-ed) and switch over?
= > >
= > > Please point to gnulib's regex sources to compare with.
= 
= 
= -- 
= http://ache.pp.ru/