Re: [Bug-gnulib] removal of regex.[ch]

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

>     regex.{c,h} seem to older than lib/regex.{c,h} though. 
>
> There is some reason why both exist, but I forget why.

Me too.  I vaguely recall it was because RMS wanted to export Emacs
regex.c to be used by other applcliations.  I don't know of any
applications that do it, though: all the ones I know of use
lib/regex.c.  (Or they slurp regex.c from glibc directly -- it's quite
different now.)

> If people think the emacs regex.[ch] should be synced into gnulib, that
> is easy.  My recollection is that the last time we discussed it,
> there were nontrivial differences.

> Can you check the bug-gnulib archives?

I searched for "emacs AND regex" and for "Jeff Bailey" and didn't find
anything.

How about if you wait a couple of days for Jeff to respond, and
if he doesn't, then start syncing gnulib regex from Emacs?