On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Move crypt to category 1 and regex to category 3. > > Crypt is not using any call which would change due to 1.5.0. The package > would be 100% identical on a binary level. > > Regex is the POSIX regex functionality which is only kept for backward > compatibility. The POSIX regex functionality is a Cygwin builtin since > roughly french revolution (well, 1.3.1 or so). I, for one, would remove > the regex package entirely from the distro. There's no package in the > distro using it and the period in which Cygwin had no POSIX regex and > the regex package provided a shared lib was pretty small.
I was thinking the same thing. Now's a perfect time to depreciate packages we don't need around anymore. T'is a shame we don't have windows in our release dir... -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB | http://www.nongnu.org/wwwauth/ http://www.emcb.co.uk | http://www.emcb.co.uk/webauth/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wwwauth-users AT nongnu DOT org
