Alexander Nasonov's shared items

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Two opinions on ropes

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/89440/focus=89529

In general, I agree with Mike but may be Josh is right in this particular case?

Friday, March 09, 2012

Popularity of boost versus popularity of pcre

Recently, there were two recursive PKGREVISION bumps in pkgsrc. One was after an update of devel/boost and the other was after an update of devel/pcre (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions). 59 files were bumped after boost update and 1657 + 68 files were bumped after pcre update. Even though boost has its own regex library but  it's way less popular in open-source world than pcre. You can draw your conclusions.