Re: Stumped on editfiles problem

[Daniel Pittman]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Mark Burgess wrote:
> The main reason for not "just going ahead and doing this" is that
> there are sometimes conflixt between different regex packages that
> cause neither of them to work, and lots og segmentation faults.

*nod*  This was one of the most painful points when I had to ensure our
software was portable to pretty much every Unix system on earth, at a
previous job.

One of the main reasons that I suggest PCRE is that it is very widely
used in software that is extremely portable, so a fair few of the rough
edges are gone by now.

> I do not know about the PCRE, but I think it sound like something
> we should look into. Do you have a link to it?

The link was suggested by another poster, but <http://www.pcre.org/>

The licensing of it would allow for a bundled copy in the cfengine
sources, which is something that a few packages have done, making it
easier to deal with -- your users don't have to install it by hand.

       Daniel

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