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diff --git a/ext/pcre/pcrelib/NEWS b/ext/pcre/pcrelib/NEWS index 56fccdfad3..27866b68a2 100644 --- a/ext/pcre/pcrelib/NEWS +++ b/ext/pcre/pcrelib/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,37 @@ News about PCRE releases ------------------------ +Release 3.5 15-Aug-01 +--------------------- + +1. The configuring system has been upgraded to use later versions of autoconf +and libtool. By default it builds both a shared and a static library if the OS +supports it. You can use --disable-shared or --disable-static on the configure +command if you want only one of them. + +2. The pcretest utility is now installed along with pcregrep because it is +useful for users (to test regexs) and by doing this, it automatically gets +relinked by libtool. The documentation has been turned into a man page, so +there are now .1, .txt, and .html versions in /doc. + +3. Upgrades to pcregrep: + (i) Added long-form option names like gnu grep. + (ii) Added --help to list all options with an explanatory phrase. + (iii) Added -r, --recursive to recurse into sub-directories. + (iv) Added -f, --file to read patterns from a file. + +4. Added --enable-newline-is-cr and --enable-newline-is-lf to the configure +script, to force use of CR or LF instead of \n in the source. On non-Unix +systems, the value can be set in config.h. + +5. The limit of 200 on non-capturing parentheses is a _nesting_ limit, not an +absolute limit. Changed the text of the error message to make this clear, and +likewise updated the man page. + +6. The limit of 99 on the number of capturing subpatterns has been removed. +The new limit is 65535, which I hope will not be a "real" limit. + + Release 3.3 01-Aug-00 --------------------- |