Author: Philip Hazel Date: To: Sheri CC: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] 7.7 Release Candidate available
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Sheri wrote:
> I compiled pcre and pcreposix shared libraries with Msys configured
> through cmake, no problem.
>
> Ran runtest.bat, no problem.
>
> Used the libraries with our existing app, and tests, no problem.
That's three out of three "no problem"s. Good! Thanks for testing.
> Can you add an internal option for the new javascript compat option,
> e.g., (*J_COMPAT)? Won't be able to use that otherwise.
Why would you want to use it? This was a very special feature that was
put in for the benefit of applications that want to be JavaScript
compatible. I am not sure that it is a choice that the creator of a
regex should/could/would want to make. But, as always, I'm prepared to
listen to arguments in favour...