* On 2002.07.31, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, * "Roman Neuhauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Strictly speaking, if used as a shared library, and existing regexp > > support is blown away and replaced, then it reduces bloat.
Not necessarily. I'm not already using pcre, so it still bloats my system to load it whether it's dynamic or static. That's without getting into whether I'd *want* to compile with shared libraries, since I'm on Solaris (where you're bludgeoned into using shared libraries whether you want to or not). Anyway, my point is that this is probably beside the point. :) > > The problem is, such a change would probably kill everyone's existing > > configurations. You'd need something like Vim's \m, \M, \v, \V escapes > > (magic, no magic, very magic, very no magic), only probably \P (use > > PCRE; assuming \P isn't taken by PCRE). It seems that it should be a relatively simple matter to use pcre instead of the usual regex library on the basis of --with-pcre or somesuch -- that is, it doesn't need to be made the default in order to enable it. If I cared for Perl regexes, I might try to do that... but I like extended regular expressions just fine. However, if someone else wants to try it, it feels like it should work. -- -D. Fresh fruit enriches everyone. Takes the thirst Sun Project, APC/UCCO out of everyday time. A pure whiff of oxygen, University of Chicago painting over a monochrome world in primary colors. [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know that. It's why everyone loves fruit.
