On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 01:51:50AM -0400, Sheri wrote:
> Sheri wrote:
> >
> > I have not had a reply from Alan about using the 2 libraries files in
> > our environment.
> >
> Alan was indeed able to link to the two libraries in question, and they
> can both be parallel to our exe (which is not on the path). He points
> out that our plugin is also looking for the other style lib names, a
> potential hazard for the end-user. If given a choice he would prefer to
> keep to a combined pcre.dll.
I do think that the names,
$ ls ~/download/pcre/pcre-7.1-RC4/prefix-shared/bin/
libpcre-0.dll libpcrecpp-0.dll libpcreposix-0.dll pcre-config
pcregrep.exe pcretest.exe
should change before we release. Either we should do this the unix way,
where we actually have 0 be 7.1, or we should do it the windows way,
libpcre.dll, and get the extra dll support working for version numbers.
What does everyone else think? I know we've been through a lot of pain
over this, but releasing a version of pcre that acts one way, and
another version of pcre that acts another way could be very difficult on
all the end users.
Thanks,
Bob Rossi