Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: regex+

2002-11-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Dov Grobgeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps replace it by pcre (www.pcre.org). It is pretty widely used these days. before you (or Robin) start to look for yet another regex replacement, you should probably have a look into the current GIMP development tree which has the problem

[Gimp-developer] Re: regex+

2002-11-28 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Dov Grobgeld wrote: Perhaps replace it by pcre (www.pcre.org). It is pretty widely used these days. The problem with Perl-compatible regular expression is that they are NP-complete: http://perl.plover.com/NPC/ Normal regular expressions are polynomial time. Throughout

[Gimp-developer] Re: regex+

2002-11-26 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2002-11-26 at 1206.59 -0800): What I have trouble imagining is the scenario where regex search in Gimp is necessary or useful. Few users even know how to phrase a regex search. Is this just feature-itis? Do I correctly surmise that regex could be removed without being

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: regex+

2002-11-26 Thread Robin Rowe
Carol, well, i use it. honest. Robin, ever try to write a gimp plug-in? How would regex help me write a gimp plug-in? Cheers, Robin --- www.FilmGimp.org www.LinuxMovies.org www.OpenSourceProgrammers.org