Re: Regexes in ATL 2

From: Alex Blekhman (tkfx^NOSPAM^_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/15/04


Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:54:50 +0300


> > Another thing that you cannot take only regex package from boost.
You
> > need to download whole library and build it. That was huge
> > inconvenience in using boost.
>
> That is not true, you can download and build it separately.

OK, I was mistaken. You don't need the _whole_ boost library for regex
package. Here you have following choices:

    a) to download it all and build it as DLL and use it like that
(that what I did), or..
    b) to determine all boost-dependencies in regex and remove not
relevant parts one by one using trial and error method. You'll still
have ~3.8 MB of source code and more than 700 files after that
operation, however.
    c) to go to John Maddock's home page and download it from there
and by that getting b) for free.

Unfortunately, at the time I tried regex, I wasn't aware about option
c), so I just downloaded whole boost and built it.

Having all this said, I'll keep my opinion: 3.8 MB of source code for
damn regular expressions is outrageous.



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