Re: [Chicken-users] adding a "standard" regexp engine?

[Peter Bex]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 12:07:26PM +0200, Michele Simionato wrote:
> > - PCRE
> > - Oniguruma (very powerful, but also very big)
> I vote for PCRE, which is the one used by Python, IIRC.

PCRE has my vote too.  I never heard of Oniguruma, what makes it so
much more powerful than PCRE?

The most common one is PCRE, which makes it less annoying for people
to install.  We should depend on as few out-of-the-ordinary third-party
libraries as possible.  If an application has even a few dependencies
that I don't currently have, I think twice before installing it.

Peter
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