Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 13:14:00 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security/yara Makefile distinfo ports/security/yara/files patch-libyara__proc.c Message-ID: <20110523171400.GA73989@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <20110523170435.GA15903@FreeBSD.org> References: <201105231554.p4NFsBdt024494@repoman.freebsd.org> <20110523170435.GA15903@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:04:35PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:54:11PM +0000, Wesley Shields wrote: > > wxs 2011-05-23 15:54:11 UTC > > > > Modified files: > > security/yara Makefile distinfo > > Added files: > > security/yara/files patch-libyara__proc.c > > Log: > > - Update to 1.5. > > - Switch to devel/re2 instead of PCRE. > > Could you perhaps explain the rationale behind pcre -> re2 (never heard > of it before) change? I mean, lots of ports depend on devel/pcre, which > seems to be de-facto regex library, and having two similar (well, that's > maybe an underestimation) libraries installed in a system without some > sufficiently strong reason seems at least questionable. (Unless, of > course, this port deliberately requires re2 and cannot be built against > pcre or easily converted.) yara currently supports either PCRE or re2. I intend on making PCRE be optional, but I switched to re2 by default because yara upstream claims to be faster with it. They are mutually exclusive options, and I went with the one that is supposedly faster with yara. -- WXS
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