Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Advance notice: Remove regex package on 2001-02-07

2002-01-24 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:42:16AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > >>Hmmmthis 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 ne

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Advance notice: Remove regex package on 2001-02-07

2002-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:42:16AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > Hmmmthis 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

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Advance notice: Remove regex package on 2001-02-07

2002-01-24 Thread Charles Wilson
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

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Advance notice: Remove regex package on 2001-02-07

2002-01-24 Thread Corinna Vinschen
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 dep