Re: regex maintenance?

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

> rms sent me this note.  I figured this was the group of people most
> likely to have someone able and willing to tackle some regex work.
> Anyone want to volunteer?

Perhaps the simplest thing to do would be to remove
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/regex/, or to add a README file in that
directory that says this:

   This regex distribution is obsolete, and is kept here only for
   historical archival purposes.  Modern uses should look at the regex
   module of Gnulib <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/>.

I didn't follow all of the description of the needed work
(as it was fragmentary and vague), but the part of it that
I did follow should all be fixed in the Gnulib regex module.