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sugar🍬🍭🏳️‍⚧️ 447212fa65 libexpr: Replace regex engine with boost::regex
This avoids C++'s standard library regexes, which aren't the same
across platforms, and have many other issues, like using stack
so much that they stack overflow when processing a lot of data.

To avoid backwards and forward compatibility issues, regexes are
processed using a function converting libstdc++ regexes into Boost
regexes, escaping characters that Boost needs to have escaped, and
rejecting features that Boost has and libstdc++ doesn't.

Related context:

- Original failed attempt to use `boost::regex` in CppNix, failed due to
  boost icu dependency being large (disabling ICU is no longer necessary
  because linking ICU requires using a different header file,
  `boost/regex/icu.hpp`): https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/3826

- An attempt to use PCRE, rejected due to providing less backwards
  compatibility with `std::regex` than `boost::regex`:
  https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7336

- Second attempt to use `boost::regex`, failed due to `}` regex failing
  to compile (dealt with by writing a wrapper that parses a regular
  expression and escapes `}` characters):
  https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7762

Closes #34. Closes #476.

Change-Id: Ieb0eb9e270a93e4c7eed412ba4f9f96cb00a5fa4
2024-08-22 03:17:55 +02:00
.github .github: clean up stale things and wrong references 2024-06-12 15:34:23 -07:00
bench Add benchmarking scripts 2024-04-08 19:50:24 -07:00
contrib function-trace: always show the trace 2019-09-18 23:23:21 +02:00
doc libexpr: Replace regex engine with boost::regex 2024-08-22 03:17:55 +02:00
lix-doc lix-doc: update dependencies and refactor 2024-07-10 02:25:48 +00:00
maintainers rl-next: fix incorrect CL list syntax 2024-08-09 19:03:08 -07:00
meson build: limit clang-tidy concurrency and respect NIX_BUILD_CORES 2024-08-18 15:39:05 -07:00
misc build: remove expect as a dependency 2024-08-10 16:10:16 -07:00
nix-support De-vendor nixfmt 2024-07-22 21:09:58 +04:00
perl Merge changes Ib7c80826,I636f8a71,I67669b98 into main 2024-08-09 19:24:29 +00:00
releng releng: fix the git push 2024-08-07 21:46:44 -07:00
scripts remove the autoconf+Make buildsystem 2024-05-07 17:04:30 -06:00
src libexpr: Replace regex engine with boost::regex 2024-08-22 03:17:55 +02:00
subprojects clang-tidy: write a lint for charptr_cast 2024-08-08 14:53:17 -07:00
tests libexpr: Replace regex engine with boost::regex 2024-08-22 03:17:55 +02:00
.clang-format Add pre-commit checks 2024-03-29 22:57:40 -07:00
.clang-tidy clang-tidy: write a lint for charptr_cast 2024-08-08 14:53:17 -07:00
.dir-locals.el .dir-locals.el: Set c-block-comment-prefix 2020-07-10 11:21:06 +02:00
.editorconfig add editorconfig for markdown 2024-05-24 02:22:44 +00:00
.envrc .envrc: remove MAKEFLAGS and use clang environment by default 2024-06-25 12:36:18 -06:00
.gitignore Put into place initial release engineering 2024-06-06 20:53:08 -07:00
.this-is-lix devShell: guard against running from another directory 2024-06-24 13:41:38 -07:00
CONTRIBUTING.md chore: re-work the contribution guide 2024-05-07 01:28:35 +00:00
COPYING Add pre-commit checks 2024-03-29 22:57:40 -07:00
default.nix Format Nix code with nixfmt 2024-04-08 13:00:00 -07:00
docker.nix releng: support multiarch docker images 2024-06-09 20:33:24 -07:00
flake.lock update flake.lock 2024-07-26 11:22:34 +04:00
flake.nix build: integrate clang-tidy into CI 2024-08-08 14:53:17 -07:00
justfile build: implement clang-tidy using our plugin 2024-08-04 20:41:19 -07:00
meson.build meson: Don't use target_machine 2024-08-16 14:24:03 +00:00
meson.options build: implement clang-tidy using our plugin 2024-08-04 20:41:19 -07:00
package.nix build: remove expect as a dependency 2024-08-10 16:10:16 -07:00
README.md README: clarify license to match documentation 2024-08-10 16:11:58 -07:00
shell.nix shell.nix: conform to documentation 2024-05-27 16:47:40 +02:00
treefmt.toml Format Nix code with nixfmt 2024-04-08 13:00:00 -07:00
version.json Update version to 2.92 2024-08-12 18:06:08 -07:00

Lix

Lix is an implementation of Nix, a powerful package management system for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.

Read more about us at https://lix.systems.

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For systems that already have a Nix implementation installed, such as NixOS systems, read our install page

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