Re: [PATCH] Support for pickaxe matching regular expressions

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: 2006-03-30 00:09:20
Dear diary, on Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 02:16:33AM CEST, I got a letter
where Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> said that...
> The regex.h library is a rather stupid interface and I like pcre too, but
> with any luck it will be everywhere we will want to run Git on, it being
> POSIX.2 and all. I'm not sure if we can expect platforms like AIX to
> conform to POSIX.2 or if win32 has regex.h. We might add a flag to
> Makefile if there is a portability trouble potential.

Dear diary, on Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 01:42:00PM CEST, I got a letter
where Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> said that...
> We already use regex.h (probably my fault).

Indeed, and since noone complained yet, the portability consideration is
apparently a non-issue.

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
Right now I am having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time.  I think
I have forgotten this before.
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