man, 22.08.2005 kl. 12.50 skrev Sam Varshavchik:
Under consideration in the next major version of maildrop is the replacement
of maildrop's internal regular expression pattern match with the
functionality provided by the PCRE library (http://www.pcre.org). PCRE is
now widely used in many places. A preliminary review shows that PCRE will
be able to support all of maildrop's functionality except for the "w"
pattern option. With PCRE, the "w" option would require the entire message
to be loaded into memory. Maildrop does not load large messages into
memory, and this would not be desirable. Therefore, adoption of PCRE will
require dropping the "w" option.
The current plan is to have a transition period, with optional fallback to
the old regular expression pattern matching engine. The default
configuration will use PCRE, and an explicit setting will be required to
fallback to the old engine.
This would be nice - I use PCRE for all my Postfix regexps and to my
mind the syntax is far more logical and powerful than that of POSIX
regexps. One also has the added convenience of pcretest for testing out
regexps in advance. If one's OS or distro doesn't already include a
recent version of the PCRE libraries (which don't?), compiling from
source is usually a breeze.
--Tonni
"What is your definition of 'poor'?"
"Well, if your only occupation is collecting dog turds for a living,
you're pretty poor ..."
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