On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 05:04:35PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:54:11PM +0000, Wesley Shields wrote: > > wxs 2011-05-23 15:54:11 UTC > > > > Modified files: > > security/yara Makefile distinfo > > Added files: > > security/yara/files patch-libyara__proc.c > > Log: > > - Update to 1.5. > > - Switch to devel/re2 instead of PCRE. > > Could you perhaps explain the rationale behind pcre -> re2 (never heard > of it before) change? I mean, lots of ports depend on devel/pcre, which > seems to be de-facto regex library, and having two similar (well, that's > maybe an underestimation) libraries installed in a system without some > sufficiently strong reason seems at least questionable. (Unless, of > course, this port deliberately requires re2 and cannot be built against > pcre or easily converted.)
yara currently supports either PCRE or re2. I intend on making PCRE be optional, but I switched to re2 by default because yara upstream claims to be faster with it. They are mutually exclusive options, and I went with the one that is supposedly faster with yara. -- WXS _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "cvs-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"