In message <address@hidden> on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:53:47 -0700, "Zack Weinberg"
<address@hidden> said:
zackw> boost::regex is now the only component of Boost that we use
zackw> that requires an external library for part of its code. I'd
zackw> like to reopen the discussion on what we should do about that.
zackw> The old nvm.deregexp branch removes a number of the internal
zackw> uses of regular expressions - I've just merged that up to
zackw> latest mainline, in case anyone would like to review it, hint
zackw> hint) but there are still quite a few remaining, and most of
zackw> them, I don't think it's practical to get rid of.
Hmmm, I'd like to make this discussion a little bit more nuanced. I
understand the desire to get rid of boost, it seems to cause a lot of
grief. However, does that mean we must get rid of regexps? There are
*other* regexp libraries out there.