Re: [Monotone-devel] ding dong, boost::filesystem is dead

[Richard Levitte]

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.

Personally, I like regexps.  Fine, I can see that it's confusing to
use them in .mtn-ignore and other file-related places, considering
files are often treated with globs.  But for the rest, I don't really
see a need to get rid of regexps per se!

Cheers,
Richard

-----
Please consider sponsoring my work on free software.
See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details.

-- 
Richard Levitte                         address@hidden
                                        http://richard.levitte.org/

"When I became a man I put away childish things, including
 the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
                                                -- C.S. Lewis