Marco Barisione wrote: > Hi, > GtkSourceView 2 will have a new syntax highlighting engine that will > require a more powerful and fast regular expression library. This is why > I worked on EggRegex (a wrapper library around PCRE) to correct bugs and > to add new features.
[...] > 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? > The thing is that Regexp seems to be a requirement in term of features for a library like glib. Qt has it. For Python and Perl, it is built into the language, etc. So basically, not having a regexp in glib is really something missing for todays programmers. Yes, pcre is not small. Maybe having it as a sub-library of glib, but part of the main package. Just my $.02 Hub _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list