From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: regex.c: emacs & glibc (and xemacs, and grep and ...) Date: 05 Apr 2002 11:47:33 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200204041924.g34JOt718874@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200204050125.g351PMp27017@shade.twinsun.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1017975090 12730 127.0.0.1 (5 Apr 2002 02:51:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 02:51:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu, sds@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16tJp4-0003JD-00 for ; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 04:51:30 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16tK1t-0001VN-00 for ; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 05:04:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tJod-0006Q0-00; Thu, 04 Apr 2002 21:51:03 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([210.143.35.52]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tJm2-0006H1-00; Thu, 04 Apr 2002 21:48:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.193]) by TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g352ljQ15508; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:47:45 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.190]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g352lfd08441; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:47:41 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV-NEC) with ESMTP id g352lci14763; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:47:39 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g352lYg16271; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:47:34 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id E3F2036F6; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:47:33 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Paul Eggert System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <200204050125.g351PMp27017@shade.twinsun.com> Original-Lines: 12 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2382 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2382 Paul Eggert writes: > It is a bit of a mess. With the exception of the new glibc code and > the Unix code, it should be relatively easy to merge all these > versions, if someone could find the time. I guess the big question is, is the new glibc code promising enough to just wait until that reaches a better state, and work from it instead? -Miles -- The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. --Albert Einstein