Re: [leafnode-list] Please comment: should PCRE be dropped from

[Joshua Crawford <mortarn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Vi skribis:

> Dear leafnode users,
>
> I am considering dropping the PCRE distribution from leafnode-1.9's
> tarball, to make it smaller. (leafnode-2 will ship without PCRE
> included). That however means that the /separate/ PCRE installation that
> is now optional becomes compulsory.
>
> The .tar.bz2 with PCRE is approximately 550 kB in size,
> without PCRE it accounts to approximately 260 kB in size, less than half
> of that.
>
>   (PCRE-3 has become somewhat large, but I found that it has some
>   features like [:space:] as POSIX character class that PCRE-2 did not
>   offer, and PCRE-2 seems to be no longer maintained, so I decided to
>   switch leafnode's included PCRE to v3.)
>
> Does your distribution ship with PCRE? (it may be called pcrelib or
> libpcre and it may also be in the developer packages collection for your
> distribution)
>
> Actually, calling leafnode "stable" should prevent me from dropping
> PCRE, and if I drop it, I shall bump the version to 1.10.0. However,
> cutting the tarball by more than half of its size is tempting.
>
> Your comments will be appreciated.

Slackware 8.1 comes with PCRE 3.9.



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