On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Bob Rossi wrote:
> 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.
My vote would be to remain compatible with previous releases, if we can
easily do so. I have no technical view.
Philip
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Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service.
