Re: [exim-dev] removal of PCRE

On 1/22/08 11:29 AM, "Tony Finch" <dot@???> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Mike Pellatt wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, I used to be a "roll-my-own" exim user.
>
> I still am :-) The PCRE build is easy and doesn't have the kinds of bugs I
> often find in configure scripts, so I didn't have any problems updating my
> Exim build script to cope with an external PCRE.

And we're a mix. On servers with generic needs, we use the Exim which the
current CentOS distribution supplies. Or even let sendmail do the work. On
the inbound and outbound and submission machines, we build Exim from source
to our needs.

I have no problem with removing PCRE from the Exim source.

At one time, having it embedded was somewhere on the scale from "tolerable"
to "a good idea". I think that ended when maintenance of PCRE and
maintenance of Exim ceased to be done by the same person (happy retirement,
Philip!).

--John