On 06/09/2011 11:33 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
I like the idea. However a potential sticking point is the equivalence class (e.g., using [=e=] to match "e" as well as accented versions like é, è and ê). That is the one feature that you get with glibc, and that you would sacrifice when building --with-included-regex.
I agree. It's up to distros to choose, of course. That would not change WRT what we have now. Let's focus on "improving" (for some definition of improve) --with-included-regex, which is what we can control.
The important point is to understand that whatever you do, you need to think about the impact for both --with-included-regex and --without-included-regex, and you need to make sure that the solution works for both.
Paolo
