Re: lynx-dev lynx: questions and suggestions

[Kim DeVaughn]

On Mon, Mar 29, 1999, Larry W. Virden (address@hidden) said:
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| Perhaps a better approach than rx is to get the latest version of
| Henry Spencer's regular expression library.

FWIW ... the mutt mailer is distributed with a regular expression
package, for use by those whose local reg exp lib is busted, etc.

Recently, the mutt distribution was changed *from* using "rx" (which
I do believe *is* Henry's lib), to a different lib package because
of too many nitsy problems with rx.

I *think* the switch was to "regexp" (which I *think* is what is commonly
called the gnu reg exp lib), but I haven't fetched a new distribution
in quite some time, so I may be mistaken on which new lib was adopted
in lieu of "rx".


As may be, I think an auxiliary lib should be a configure-time option,
with the default being to use the platform's native reg exp lib, unless
specified otherwise.

/kim