Re: [Chicken-users] Last two snapshots (3.3.5 and 3.3.6) are broken

[Peter Bex]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 12:11:08PM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote:
> I agree that this big pile of foreign code in the souce tree stands
> somewhat out and doesn't fit in too well. Actually, using irregex
> is really an option, but both performance and stability has to
> be evaluated thoroughly before committing to such a decision.

My 2 cents:
Why not make irregex part of core and create a PCRE egg?  That gives us
the best of both worlds, IMHO.

Cheers,
Peter
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