Autor: Phil Brutsche Data: A: exim-dev Assumpte: Re: [exim-dev] PCRE inclusions in Exim
Philip Hazel wrote: > That is too much of an upheaval for a 4.52 release that I want to get
> out soon.
Save the upheavals for 5.0 ;)
> (1) Insist on a system library being installed.
> (2) Use a *standard* private copy of PCRE, not a cut-down version as now.
Should my vote count, I vote for #1.
Exim doesn't ship with private copies of TCP Wrappers, OpenLDAP,
OpenSSL, GNUTLS, various SQL libraries or PAM. Why should PCRE be any
different?
Granted, unlike the other libraries Exim won't work without PCRE...
