[cmake-developers] slow regex implementation in RegularExpression

[David Cole]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:44 PM, James Bigler <jamesbigler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/29/2011 2:41 PM, Alexandru Ciobanu wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We found a workaround that does not require any source code
>>> modifications. I added the description to the bug report:
>>> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12381#c27872
>>>
>> Good, glad you are up and running again.
>> ...
>>
>
> Does this mean we won't see any new and better regexp code in CMake?  I for
> one was looking forward to a better regexp engine.
>
> James
>
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I think we're going to take it slow and make it well-thought-out
before we put a new regex engine in... It will not be appearing in the
upcoming 2.8.7 since nothing is even in 'next' yet, and we are still
discussing the options.

We'll keep sleeping on it till it seems cooked enough before we put
something in 'next' to try out.

Thx,
David