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

> Date: 2026-08-23 13:58:36+0200
> From: Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]>
>
> 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

To clarify: I'd remove this.

> 
> 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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