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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:03:47 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Add Perl regex support to Cygwin?
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In-Reply-To: <20010228111111.G8464@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from vinschen@redhat.com on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:11:11AM +0100

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:11:11AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:26:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Just an off the wall idea:
>> 
>> http://www.pcre.org/
>
>PCRE has an excellent reputation. Why not adding it to Cygwin? If
>it becomes part of the DLL we could drop the need for the external
>regex lib.

That's what I was thinking.  I love perl's regexp capability but I wonder
if adding this would bloat the DLL too much.  Maybe we need another DLL?
With recent proposed changes to dlltool we could use a "forwarding" export
in cygwin.def that would cause a cygpcre.dll to be loaded.

er, um, I mean rhpcre.dll.

cgf