> On Wed, 13 May 2015, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:
>
>> Am 13.05.2015 03:02, schrieb Levente Uzonyi:
>>> On Tue, 12 May 2015, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am 12.05.2015 17:07, schrieb Levente Uzonyi:
>> ...
>>>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> Nope, PCRE should behave consistently across platforms if the same
>> version is
>> installed on those platforms (although I'd be somewhat unsure about its
>> handling of line ending conventions and unicode/different character sets
>> on
>> different platforms.)
>> But I was responding to "platform's support library" which might be
>> anything
>> from PCRE through some POSIX compatible regex (from the GNU C library or
>> some
>> other implementation) to anything else that might be there (see
>> http://unixpapa.com/incnote/regex.html for a list of possibilities).
>
> The RePlugin is a wrapper for the PCRE library, so what I'm saying is that
> we should use the system's installed PCRE library (or statically link an
> up-to-date version), instead of a really old fork of it.
> The PCRE API won't change anymore, since PCRE2 is here.
>

Yes, this is important for Linux distro maintainers.

  http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7539

Dave