Sander Temme wrote: > On Nov 30, 2009, at 1:12 PM, "William A. Rowe Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net> > >> Look, PCRE is a mandatory component. APR is a mandatory component. >> Let's please start applying some rhyme to our reasoning again. > > Meaning? Put pcre in -deps? With libz? That's mandatory for deflate.
Mandatory 'for a feature' is not the same thing as mandatory to build the damned thing ... zlib is no more 'required' than libiconv; you'll lose a couple features but you'll keep on plugging away. PCRE is a critical, don't pass go, don't collect $200 feature. And what is passing for an excuse for a local PCRE install these days probably doesn't look like 7.8 or later, with various fixes we are vulnerable to. So until we support building sans-pcre, it would seem like a good idea to bundle it with whatever 'extras' we ship.
