> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Richard Levitte > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:28 AM > To: monotone-devel@nongnu.org > Subject: Re: [Monotone-devel] ding dong, boost::filesystem is dead > > 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. [Kelly F. Hickel] I'd like to see boost go, it makes my life harder and will make it harder for my company to adopt monotone. PCRE is a great regex library. > > 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! [Kelly F. Hickel] Regexps are wonderful. Really. No, I mean it. > > Cheers, > Richard > > -----
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