Hi, Sudheera! On Apr 19, Sudheera Palihakkara wrote: > Hi, > I went through other threads on this topic. In one thread you mentioned to > choose a suitable regex library. > > *( Preliminary research - only about chosing a regex library to use in > MariaDB. You should be able to explain why we should use this library and > not some other one.) > > * > What do you mean by "choosing"? don't we have to enhance the exiting regex > library? Or choose from exiting already implemented libraries which are > free to use? sorry if it's a stupid question, but I'm confused. :O
Enhancing our old regex library to support all modern features and multiple charsets is complex and bug-prone work. I don't see why we should bother doing it, when there are plenty of regex libraries available. There's PHP's mb_regex, there's prce, and many others too. We'd better just pick one that works better for MariaDB, and put it instead of Henry Spencer's library. Regards, Sergei P.S. Please, don't reply to me only, use reply-to-all, so that your mails appear on the mailing list. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
