On Tue, 12 May 2015, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:

> Am 12.05.2015 17:07, schrieb Levente Uzonyi:
>> Definitely. I've been playing with the idea - while I was working on
>> my still unreleased DNS package - but I came to the conclusion that
>> the VM side has to be cleaned first.
>> The plugin should use the platform's support library, instead of some
>> ~10 years old version.
> Please, no! It's much easier to work with some old library that has 
> consistent behaviour everywhere than it is to find and work around the 
> differences between platform libraries e.g. on Windows, Linux, and some 
> regular UNIX variant. At work I need to do that with VA Smalltalk code page 
> conversion (UTF-8 to ISO8859L1 and back) - code that works on the client 
> doesn't work on the server, so there's a special case and workaround needed 
> to get everything right.
> The only acceptable option if you really want to use an external library 
> would be to include a standard regex C library with well-defined 
> functionality in the VM.

Are you saying that the PCRE library behaves differently on different 
platforms?

Levente

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> Cheers,
> Hans-Martin
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