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On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 10:35:14AM +0300, Alex Kost wrote:
> I agree that having both 'tre' and 're2' packages in "regex.scm" is the
> right thing.  Also I think it would be good to move 'oniguruma' there.
> 
> As for "pcre.scm", I would also move its content to "regex.scm".  What
> about 'ghc-pcre-light'?  It seems natural to keep it in the same file
> with 'pcre'/'pcre2' or should it stay in "haskell.scm"?
> 
> But also there are regex libraries for various languages (like
> 'ghc-regex-posix', 'guile-irregex', 'perl-regexp-common').  I think
> these shouldn't be moved.

Your first paragraph made it sound so simple. As your message continued,
it illustrated how complicated this issue can be ;)

BTW, if I had remembered the textutils module, I would probably have put
re2 there.