Re: [PATCH 0/2] Proposed builtin regex.c cleanup

Alejandro Colomar via Mutt-dev <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:58:32 +0200

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Hi Kevin,

> Date: 2026-08-23 13:32:44+0800
> From: "Kevin J. McCarthy" <[email protected]>
>
> I'm debating whether to do this cleanup, or to just mark the builtin
> regex configure option as deprecated and pull it out of the 2.6.0 release.
> 
> I'm certainly not capable of maintaining the code, and all platforms
> should have a built-in regex library by now, shouldn't they?
> 
> Feedback?

+1

Acked-by: Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]>


Have a lovely day!
Alex

> 
> Kevin J. McCarthy (2):
>   Fix some of the bundled regex.c compiler warnings.
>   More aggressively clean up regex.c warnings.
> 
>  regex.c | 278 +++++++++++---------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 223 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.55.0
> 

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