> > But we don't have, and may never have, one that is as fast and > bug-free as pcre and that is compatible with pcre. The user > of a library doesn't care whether it's written in Pascal or C.
True. But if native, it isn't a library but linked into the main (static) binary, with all deployment consequences. P.s. I recently ran 1998 Linux FPC binaries, and they STILL worked. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal