>> If platform X has no (or a broken) regex package, and it can't
>> compile Spencer's, then what? It seems to me that we *have* to
>> either support the package, or not use regex capabilities in
>> Apache. And we're already commited to the latter.
Randy> Do you know of such a platform?
Randy> I'm kind of surprised this is that much of a debate...
I'm suprised too. The regex routines that come with Tcl are based on
(one of) Spencer's packages. None of the porting problems I've with
Tcl have come from that code -- I can't think of a single place where
it didn't compile the first time.
I suppose it is conceivable that his code won't port to some machine.
It seems pretty unlikely, though.
But if it is that much of a concern, then I'll volunteer to do
whatever porting work becomes necessary.
Tom
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