[Olsr-dev] compiler warnings for regex on Android-only

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

That is 25% of existing Google-approved devices:

"The following pie chart and table is based on the number of Android
devices that have accessed Google Play within a 14-day period ending on
the data collection date noted below."

There are many Android devices out there that are not Google-approved
and don't use the Google Play/Marketplace.  We definitely want to
support those as well as Google-approved devices.

.hc

On 06/20/2012 04:03 PM, Henning Rogge wrote:
> Android 2.2 and earlier is ~ 25% of the existing devices.
> (source https://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html)
> 
> Even the Google G1 can run Android 2.3.
> 
> Henning Rogge
> 
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
> <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>>
>> We want to support older versions of android as well.  Android 2.3 and
>> newer only covers about 50% of android devices out there.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On 06/20/2012 01:03 PM, Henning Rogge wrote:
>>> Do we even need this regex library anymore? More recent (Android 2.3 I
>>> think) NDKs should contain the regex code that was missing earlier.
>>>
>>> Henning
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>>> <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey Ferry,
>>>>
>>>> While I normally am a big believer in fixing compiler warnings, there
>>>> are good times to leave them alone.  The regex code included only for
>>>> Android is one of them.  That code is old, a bit weird, super stable,
>>>> well tested, and working perfectly.  Yes, it makes lots of compiler
>>>> warnings, but it has been that way since 1994, and its included that way
>>>> in Android, OpenBSD, etc.
>>>>
>>>> Please revert your changes to android/regex*
>>>>
>>>> .hc
>>>>
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