On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 17:08 +0200, Marco Barisione wrote: > Hi, > GtkSourceView 2 will have a new syntax highlighting engine that will > require a more powerful and fast regular expression library.
In case you don't know already, regexxer uses GtkSourceView with pcre for highlighting of regular expressions. The sources might be helpful. > This is why > I worked on EggRegex (a wrapper library around PCRE) to correct bugs and > to add new features. > > My version of EggRegex is at http://techn.ocracy.org/eggregex/ and a > copy of the documentation is at http://www.barisione.org/eggregex/ > > EggRegex was originally written by Scott Wimer to be included in glib, > renaming it to GRegex. However including it in glib would mean adding a > dependency to libpcre or linking it statically increasing the size of > glib (a stripped libeggregex is 144 KB on my computer). > > So my question is: what should be the future of EggRegex? > If it will not be included in glib what do you think about having a > separate libgregex? > If it will be a separate library can I use the name GRegex or should I > choose another name without using the G namespace? > -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list