Re: [pcre-dev] 7.6-RC2

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:56:44PM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> > Like anything else, we could get this to work. However, it seems that
> > Philip trumped this idea and prefered to just remove it. If that
> > situation changes, I will consider thinking about the issue more.
>
> I did not just remove it because it was tricky or hard. I did it on
> principle. Users are supposed to compile pcredemo.c (if they want to) as
> an example of an application that uses PCRE. It is an example for
> programmers who want to write PCRE applications. It is not meant to
> demonstrate PCRE's pattern matching - you can use pcretest for that.
> Having it built automatically defeats the object.

I agree completely.

Bob Rossi