Re: [exim-dev] removal of PCRE

FWIW, I used to be a "roll-my-own" exim user. But as once decent rpm's
and other packaged versions came along I moved across to those, usually
making some changes to the .spec file to suit my needs (especially once
Fedora dropped support for SA-Exim.....)

If I was still roll-my-own, I'd nevertheless support this move.

Mike

John Jetmore wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
>> How many systems actually don't have PCRE available as a system library
>> - for heavens sake its even in Solaris (SUNWpcre package) - and they
>> have a 1980s runtime.
>
> I was going to mention the Solaris 2.5.1 box I have Exim on. But I just
> remembered I was finally allowed to decom that box a month ago, which
> fills me with great joy.
>
> I'm not going to put up a fight here - I acknowledge this will reduce the
> strain on packagers (since they won't have to maintain their own patches
> to use an external library) and will generally be a win for people who use
> distribution packages for everything. I don't do this but my intention
> was not to complain about work to me, but to the userbase as a whole.
>
> I'm not convinced of Exim's use demographics, but if you guys (who are
> doing the real work) feel that this is truly a win for the majority of the
> users and not just pushing developer work off to end users then I can
> accept that.
>
> Thanks
> --John
>