Re: regexps

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 06:48  pm, Marko Riedel wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> this is from a message that I sent to Nicola and didn't cc to
> discuss-gnustep.
>
> "BTW working on GSMBrowser I really missed my beloved Perl regular
> expressions. I am not at all a regexp expert, but even simple regexps
> can save so much time and code! Maybe we should devise a GNUStep
> interface to the PCRE library (like in PHP) or would this conflict
> with the desire to stick to the original OpenStep specification?"

I have no problem with additional APIs and regular expressions would be
a good candidate for inclusion in the base additions library.  However, 
I
don't want the base package to depend on any more external libraries if
we can help it.

If there is a small regexp library where the license is LGPL and the 
copyright
is owned by the FSF (or public domain I suppose) we could include that 
as
part of the distribution and not need an external library.

Alternatively, we could use the system posix regexp library...