Regular Expression Support

Andrew Gallagher andrewg at andrewg.com
Tue Feb 18 10:09:58 CET 2020


On 18/02/2020 07:31, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> OpenPGP has support of regular expression with trust Signature packets.
> 
> GnuPG 2.x only supports the feature when it can find regcomp/regexec
> routines in system library.  On Windows, it is not supported.

Isn't this a case of pathological featuritis? If nobody has screamed
about the inconsistencies so far, it's a pretty good sign that nobody
has any use for it. Burn it.

-- 
Andrew Gallagher

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