Corinna Vinschen wrote: > ======================================================================== > > Since Cygwin 1.3.7, the Cygwin API contains the POSIX regex calls. > > For that reason, the "regex" package is no longer needed, except other > packages depend on it. > > The only package in the Cygwin net distribution which was dependent of > "regex" was OpenSSH. This isn't any longer true with OpenSSH-3.0.2p1-5. > > For that reason, I will remove the regex package in 2 weeks from today.
Hmmm....this is disquieting. Let's assume that Bob has built, on his machine, the "HandyMedicineDatabase" application which depends on cygregex.dll. He can now no longer install HMD on a new machine, unless he carries around a copy of the regex package -- or he is forced to recompile his app so that it doesn't depend on cygregex.dll. Perhaps you can release a new regex package that contains only the DLL, and not the development links. However, this brings up the question: how long to we need to keep these old DLLs around to support (possible) user-compiled packages? E.g. when can the libreadline4 package be removed? No existing *cygwin* package depends on it, but user-compiled stuff might... Ditto "cygregex.dll". --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
