[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Ctags sync, part 1 (#1160)

[Jiří Techet]

> About regex, well… the problem is that we'd need a bundled version of GNU regex, and that would mean keeping it up to date. If you really wanna do that, maybe "just" write a tiny wrapper using GRegex in a compatible API? I'm kinda afraid of having to keep a copy of GNU regex -- and it's especially ironic when it's in the process of syncing another lib :)

I know ctags has a bundled GNU regex library but I think it only falls back to it when GNU regex isn't present in the system (the native windows msvc build I guess). But for Windows we use msys2 where I'd suspect it would be present and the Mac build uses jhbuild to build all typical linux dependencies so I think it's there too. So do we actually need to bundle GNU regex?


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