In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:53:47 -0700, "Zack Weinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
zackw> boost::regex is now the only component of Boost that we use zackw> that requires an external library for part of its code. I'd zackw> like to reopen the discussion on what we should do about that. zackw> The old nvm.deregexp branch removes a number of the internal zackw> uses of regular expressions - I've just merged that up to zackw> latest mainline, in case anyone would like to review it, hint zackw> hint) but there are still quite a few remaining, and most of zackw> them, I don't think it's practical to get rid of. Hmmm, I'd like to make this discussion a little bit more nuanced. I understand the desire to get rid of boost, it seems to cause a lot of grief. However, does that mean we must get rid of regexps? There are *other* regexp libraries out there. Personally, I like regexps. Fine, I can see that it's confusing to use them in .mtn-ignore and other file-related places, considering files are often treated with globs. But for the rest, I don't really see a need to get rid of regexps per se! Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel