On 01/24/2011 01:57 PM, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>     
>         POSIX BREs and EREs
>     
>     And the GNU extensions that we should all be supporting by default
>     :).
> 
> Just to be sure.  By importing the 'regex' gnulib module and including
> REG_EXTENDED in the cflags parameter of regcomp we can be sure that we
> are supporting the GNU extensions, right?

For now, yes.

Eventually, we should provide two modules:

regex-posix (only what POSIX requires)
regex-gnu   (also all GNU extensions)

and have regex become regex-gnu (similar to other modules, like getopt).
 But when that day comes, it will be listed in NEWS.

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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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