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

[Kelly F. Hickel]

> [mailto:address@hidden On
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> Of Richard Levitte
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:28 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Monotone-devel] ding dong, boost::filesystem is dead
> 
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> 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.
[Kelly F. Hickel] I'd like to see boost go, it makes my life harder and
will make it harder for my company to adopt monotone.  PCRE is a great
regex library.
> 
> 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!
[Kelly F. Hickel] Regexps are wonderful.  Really.  No, I mean it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Richard
> 
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Thanks,
Kelly