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

[Zack Weinberg]

On 7/11/07, Richard Levitte <address@hidden> wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> 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.

I am entirely in agreement with you. :-)  In fact, the
nvm.experiment.pcre branch does just that - replaces boost::regex with
libpcre, which is much smaller and can sanely be bundled with
monotone.  This is why I am suggesting landing both the .deregexp and
the .pcre branches.

zw