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

[Paul Eggert]

Jeff Bailey <address@hidden> writes:
Jeff Bailey <address@hidden> writes:

> Given that the symlink is broken, I would suggest *not* reinstating it
> (although if we choose to do so, I still have ssh to subversion), and
> deleting it from the root of the repo.

Sounds good.  Can you please do that?  I'm a bit worried that if I did
it, some leftover from the symlink would bite the Emacs repository.
(Or if you think any of us could do it please let us know.)

> IIRC, the Emacs regex.[ch]
> interface is different that the one in glibc.

Yes.  Just a point of clarification: we currently have 3 regex
implementations in use: Emacs's, gnulib/lib/regex.[ch] (used by
coreutils, diffutils, etc), and glibc's.  Emacs's and gnulib's are
fairly similar, but glibc's is quite different.

The proposal is to remove a 4th implementation gnulib/regex.[ch], a
snapshot of an old Emacs implementation that nobody uses now.