[Nagiosplug-devel] thoughts on regexp using plugins

[Andreas Ericsson]

sean finney wrote:
> currently we have a couple plugins that make conditional use
> of posix regexp functionality if it is available.  i'm wondering,
> since some systems do not come with regexp functionality, why
> don't we include some version of the GNU regexp library in
> our codebase, and if configure fails to find a native version
> use that instead?  then we could guarantee regexp availability
> on every platform.
> 
> what do you think?
> 

I think no. Most (all?) of the plugins using regexes are intended for 
use on the host where Nagios runs. It's not too onerous to demand that 
that system's up to date or simply state that some functionality will be 
missing if it isn't.

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