Re: prior work on non-backtracking regex engine?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>,  "emacs-devel@gnu.org"
>  <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:00:27 +0800
> 
> I hate to rain on people's parades, but from where I stand, introducing
> one more mandatory dependency, not least a dependency for so fundamental
> a component of Emacs as the regexp matcher, is not acceptable, even if
> this library is maintained under the auspices of the GNU project or
> under the GPL, license or stewardship being really immaterial issues.

If it's an optional dependency, I don't see why not.

Of course, an optional dependency will have to either be 110%
compatible with what we have now, or expose a separate and distinct
API to Lisp programs.  Which makes this project a larger undertaking.
But otherwise, I don't see why not.