[Bug 499984] Review Request: mingw32-rxspencer - MinGW Regex library

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--- Comment #10 from Erik van Pienbroek <erik-fedora at vanpienbroek.nl>  2009-05-22 11:08:04 EDT ---
Just found this link on the website of rxspencer explaining the alpha status,
http://arglist.com/regex/usenet-spencer-1993-08-07.txt :

 Then there's my new one, which is the regular-expression implementation
 shipping with 4.4BSD.  The good news is that it's completely POSIX.2
 compliant.  The bad news is that it's pretty slow; it's basically an
 alpha release, and I'd really hoped to get at least to a beta before
 4.4 shipped, but that didn't happen.  Eventually there will be a faster
 release, but don't ask me to set a date just yet.

That comment was from back in '93..

I think it's better to drop this package in favor of libgnurx. I'll package it
and come up with a new review request ASAP.

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