[Nagiosplug-devel] thoughts on regexp using plugins
Andreas Ericsson
ae at op5.se
Thu Mar 23 06:51:22 CET 2006
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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