seek for advice of package regexx

2004-09-12 Thread Qingning Huo
Hi, I decided to adopt the package regexx (a C++ wrapper to the GNU regex functions). It is orphoned last month (#263873), because the original maintainer is leaving debian. On close inspcetion of the source package, I found something interesting. The upstream source code tarball actually

Re: seek for advice of package regexx

2004-09-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:48:54PM +0100, Qingning Huo wrote: On close inspcetion of the source package, I found something interesting. The upstream source code tarball actually contains a copy of pcre (Perl-compatible regular expression library), but libpcre3 is already in the deabin

Re: seek for advice of package regexx

2004-09-12 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:48:54PM +0100, Qingning Huo wrote: I think it would be better to use the libpcre3 library, make regexx easier to maintain, and more up to date. Before I start working on it, I would like know whether this is the best practice, and whether there are any pitfalls. As

Re: seek for advice of package regexx

2004-09-12 Thread Qingning Huo
Matthew and Jeroen, Many thanks for your advice. I will take the optimol way to use libpcre3, and take compatibility into considertation. Thanks and regards, Qingning signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: seek for advice of package regexx

2004-09-12 Thread Craig Small
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 02:13:22PM +0100, Qingning Huo wrote: Many thanks for your advice. I will take the optimol way to use libpcre3, and take compatibility into considertation. I also think attempting to use libpcre3 would be a good idea for reasons mentioned prevously. What would be even

seek for advice of package regexx

2004-09-12 Thread Qingning Huo
Hi, I decided to adopt the package regexx (a C++ wrapper to the GNU regex functions). It is orphoned last month (#263873), because the original maintainer is leaving debian. On close inspcetion of the source package, I found something interesting. The upstream source code tarball actually

Re: seek for advice of package regexx

2004-09-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:48:54PM +0100, Qingning Huo wrote: On close inspcetion of the source package, I found something interesting. The upstream source code tarball actually contains a copy of pcre (Perl-compatible regular expression library), but libpcre3 is already in the deabin

Re: seek for advice of package regexx

2004-09-12 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:48:54PM +0100, Qingning Huo wrote: I think it would be better to use the libpcre3 library, make regexx easier to maintain, and more up to date. Before I start working on it, I would like know whether this is the best practice, and whether there are any pitfalls. As

Re: seek for advice of package regexx

2004-09-12 Thread Qingning Huo
Matthew and Jeroen, Many thanks for your advice. I will take the optimol way to use libpcre3, and take compatibility into considertation. Thanks and regards, Qingning signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: seek for advice of package regexx

2004-09-12 Thread Craig Small
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 02:13:22PM +0100, Qingning Huo wrote: Many thanks for your advice. I will take the optimol way to use libpcre3, and take compatibility into considertation. I also think attempting to use libpcre3 would be a good idea for reasons mentioned prevously. What would be even