As of revision 9546b6ea3c29b0a8f63542f6d495efd33bec9add, Monotone no longer depends on boost::filesystem. (Technically, rev 285185cc395c0a643d531104b6b30cb3455d9d6e removed the dependency; the subsequent change removes a use of boost::algorithm::join, which is apparently a 1.34ism.) This means we are now relying on hand-rolled code for all path manipulation and filesystem operations. I hope there are no problems, but history says there probably will be, especially on Windows. Please let me know if you encounter any.
boost::regex is now the only component of Boost that we use that requires an external library for part of its code. I'd like to reopen the discussion on what we should do about that. The old nvm.deregexp branch removes a number of the internal uses of regular expressions - I've just merged that up to latest mainline, in case anyone would like to review it, hint hint) but there are still quite a few remaining, and most of them, I don't think it's practical to get rid of. Here's the list: * In the implementation of globish matching; this could be rewritten, it just hasn't been done yet. * .mtn-ignore. We agreed in principle that this would be redone using globs, but we have no transition plan nor have we decided on the exact semantics. I'd like to survey other VCS' ignore features before we decide on anything. * In the logic to scan for enclosing top-level constructs in 'mtn diff'. The regexps in question are exposed to the user, and it would be tricky to come up with sane semantics for the feature that didn't involve regexps. * regex search is exposed to Lua hooks and may be used in user rc files that we can't see. * The test suite uses regexps extensively, and I don't see a practical alternative. Therefore I would recommend that we merge *both* the .deregexp and the .experiment.pcre branches, as is, for 0.36. That will get us off the external-Boost-library hook altogether, let us continue to use regexps in the testsuite and user-provided Lua hooks, and we can work on larger scope tasks like globish ignores at our leisure. I'll try to find time to rewrite globish without regexps before 0.36 but I'm not promising. Thoughts? zw _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel