Module Name:	pkgsrc
Committed By:	wiz
Date:		Tue Aug  5 10:18:41 UTC 2003

Modified Files:
	pkgsrc/devel/pcre: Makefile PLIST distinfo
	pkgsrc/devel/pcre/patches: patch-aa

Log Message:
Update to 4.3.
Version 4.3 21-May-03

Refactoring for code improvements. POSIX compat fix (constification).
UTF-8 fixes.

Version 4.2 14-Apr-03

Build fixes. Removed some compiler warnings. UTF-8 fixes.

Version 4.1 12-Mar-03

Compilation fixes. A bug fix, and two optimization fixes.

Highlights of the 4.0 release:
1. Support for Perl's \Q...\E escapes.

2. "Possessive quantifiers" ?+, *+, ++, and {,}+ which come from Sun's Java
package. They provide some syntactic sugar for simple cases of "atomic
grouping".

3. Support for the \G assertion. It is true when the current matching position
is at the start point of the match.

4. A new feature that provides some of the functionality that Perl provides
with (?{...}). The facility is termed a "callout". The way it is done in PCRE
is for the caller to provide an optional function, by setting pcre_callout to
its entry point. To get the function called, the regex must include (?C) at
appropriate points.

5. Support for recursive calls to individual subpatterns. This makes it really
easy to get totally confused.

6. Support for named subpatterns. The Python syntax (?P<name>...) is used to
name a group.

7. Several extensions to UTF-8 support; it is now fairly complete. There is an
option for pcregrep to make it operate in UTF-8 mode.

8. The single man page has been split into a number of separate man pages.
These also give rise to individual HTML pages which are put in a separate
directory. There is an index.html page that lists them all. Some hyperlinking
between the pages has been installed.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -r1.13 -r1.14 pkgsrc/devel/pcre/Makefile
cvs rdiff -r1.2 -r1.3 pkgsrc/devel/pcre/PLIST
cvs rdiff -r1.7 -r1.8 pkgsrc/devel/pcre/distinfo
cvs rdiff -r1.3 -r1.4 pkgsrc/devel/pcre/patches/patch-aa

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