On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 02:00:25PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar via Mutt-dev wrote:
Date: 2026-08-23 13:58:36+0200 From: Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]>Hi Kevin, > Date: 2026-08-23 13:32:44+0800 > From: "Kevin J. McCarthy" <[email protected]> > > I'm debating whether to do this cleanup, or to just mark the builtin > regex configure option as deprecated and pull it out of the 2.6.0 release. > > I'm certainly not capable of maintaining the code, and all platforms > should have a built-in regex library by now, shouldn't they? > > Feedback? +1To clarify: I'd remove this.
Thanks Alex.Since no one spoke up in defense of the bundled regex code, I will go forward with adding a warning, marking it as deprecated in 2.5.0 and plan on pulling it out in 2.6.0.
I won't commit the PATCH 2/2 cleanup since that's a little bit risky, but I think I'll commit the "K&R to ANSI conversion". That's pretty safe and I
already went through the effort. :-) -- Kevin J. McCarthy GPG Fingerprint: 8975 A9B3 3AA3 7910 385C 5308 ADEF 7684 8031 6BDA
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