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Migration: pkg/regexutil → go/regexutil

The bounded regex-compilation helper has been extracted out of go-tool-base into the standalone module gitlab.com/phpboyscout/go/regexutil (v0.1.0). It is framework-free (only cockroachdb/errors), so any project can adopt it without pulling in the framework.

What changed

  • The package gitlab.com/phpboyscout/go-tool-base/pkg/regexutil no longer exists. It now lives at gitlab.com/phpboyscout/go/regexutil.
  • The public API is identical. The package name is still regexutil; CompileBounded, CompileBoundedTimeout, MaxPatternLength, DefaultCompileTimeout, and the ErrPattern* sentinels are unchanged.
  • No GTB adapter and no compatibility shim — a clean pre-1.0 import-path change.

How to migrate

-import "gitlab.com/phpboyscout/go-tool-base/pkg/regexutil"
+import "gitlab.com/phpboyscout/go/regexutil"

go get gitlab.com/phpboyscout/go/[email protected]
go mod tidy

A repository-wide substitution is sufficient (package name and symbols unchanged):

grep -rl 'go-tool-base/pkg/regexutil' --include='*.go' . \
  | xargs sed -i 's#gitlab.com/phpboyscout/go-tool-base/pkg/regexutil#gitlab.com/phpboyscout/go/regexutil#g'
go mod tidy

Notes

  • go-tool-base itself now consumes go/regexutil directly for its untrusted-pattern compile paths (docs TUI search, Bitbucket release matching).
  • Full threat model and guidance: regexutil.go.phpboyscout.uk; API reference on pkg.go.dev.