pcre in base system

[Dennis Koegel]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:54:22AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> Based on the NetBSD thread, pcre also has an area where it is not
> POSIX compliant (and does not plan to become POSIX compliant) and does
> not provide BREs.  This may present a sticking point.

Replacing the standard behaviour with PCREs definitely is a bad idea.

But, well, it would actually be nice if PCREs would be available as an
*option*. Analogue to grep, grep -E / sed, sed -E, ... one might have
grep -P (and not confuse it with pgrep ;-), sed -P and so on.

- D.