[ccan] CCAN & GSoC 2009

[Tim Post]

Hi,

On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 15:16 +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote:
> The main downside with RegEx, I suspect, is that many people tend to
> just skip straight to using PCRE...
> 
> Adam K

Typically most would. Only during the last year and a half have I really
worked on systems that have a very incomplete libc (i.e. HelenOS at this
point). That means (for the really devoted) stopping work on an
application in order to port some library that you need.

Having limited regex in ccan would be really, really cool for just that
kind of situation. I'm sure only a hand full would use it, but they
would be REALLY happy it was there :)

Other instances would be those working with very small devices where
even uclibc seems too big.

Though, its not too terribly hard to include only what you need from
pcre..


Cheers,
--Tim

> 
> 2009/2/20 foo-script <foo-script at o2.pl>:
> > My proposals:
> >
> > 1. RegEx. This module has to support at least:
> > -searching the string (const char * or using String module) and return an array of pointers to found substring
> > -checking whether an argument corresponds to a given regex formula
> > -(extra) creating a regex formula from a set of strings
> >
> > 2. Good pseudo-random numbers generator - this one in cstdlib isn't good enough. Using OpenSSL each time doesn't seem to be a solution.
> >
> >
> > Best!
> > Adam Rakowski
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