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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Obsolete old regex support?
From:       Harri Porten <porten () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2001-10-26 13:03:14
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Michael Bedy wrote:

>   1) Go thorugh the trouble of maintaining both interfaces in the code via
>      ifdefs.
>   2) Disable regex support completely if you don't have pcre.
>   3) Make pcre a hard requirement.

I'd favor 1) because of not losing users that can't get it on their system
too easily (e.g. Windows). Can't you just keep the old code inside of
#ifdef's and keep on hacking with the new one ? I would take care of
keeping the old version running. If that's too much work I opt for 2).

Harri.

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