Re: [exim] Testing Exim 4.70 prerelease

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Author: Dennis Davis
Date:  
To: Tom Kistner
CC: Exim Users, exim-dev
Subject: Re: [exim] Testing Exim 4.70 prerelease
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Tom Kistner wrote:

> From: Tom Kistner <tom@???>
> To: Exim Users <exim-users@???>
> Cc: exim-dev@???
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:38:49
> Subject: [exim] Testing Exim 4.70 prerelease
>
> The release of Exim 4.70 is on the horizon...


...
> Other changes:
>
> * PCRE removed from Exim distribution. You will need
>    a separate PCRE library (and matching headers) to
>    compile Exim.


The file NOTICE needs a trivial change to remove the reference to
the cut-down version of PCRE that was previously included with exim:


--- NOTICE.orig    Wed Jan  4 11:55:50 2006
+++ NOTICE    Wed Oct 14 10:05:13 2009
@@ -39,14 +39,6 @@


A number of pieces of external code are included in the Exim distribution.

- .   Regular expressions are supported in the main Exim program and in the
-     Exim monitor using the freely-distributable PCRE library, copyright (c)
-     2003 University of Cambridge. The source is distributed in the directory
-     src/pcre. However, this is a cut-down version of PCRE. If you want to use
-     the PCRE library in other programs, you should obtain and install the
-     full version from ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre.
-
-
  .   Support for the cdb (Constant DataBase) lookup method is provided by code
      contributed by Nigel Metheringham of Planet Online Ltd. which contains
      the following statements:
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Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
D.H.Davis@???               Phone: +44 1225 386101