[cmake-developers] PCRE

[Michael Wild]

On 05/15/2011 07:23 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just a quick note to let you Debajyoti Datta will be implementing
> Perl-compatible Regular Expression support in CMake starting next
> Friday.
> 
> I am mentoring him in Season of KDE (kind of Google Summer of Code,
> but for KDE). Some details of what he will be doing here here:
> http://www.elpauer.org/?p=684
> 
> I've just sent him a long e-mail with the technical details and the
> source of my half-baked implementation. If you are interested in those
> details too, just ask me and I'll forward the e-mail.
> 
> We will not be replacing the current regex support in CMake but only
> adding PCRE in addition to the current regex support. Wherever you
> find now regex support, there will be also PCRE support. I have been
> trying to do this for years (!!!) but I never found enough spare time
> to complete it.
> 
> Debajyoti will introduce himself here soon and the technical issues
> will be discussed here, so that other developers can also give him
> some insight.
> 
> 

Wow, that is some great news! I always missed repeat counts and
predefined character classes the most.

Michael