The glibre project was started due to the lack of a good tool to test out regular expressions. Sure they're just normal Perl Compatible Regular Expressions, so any compatible tester should work right?

Well yes and no. I found myself having to write a LOT of regular expressions that would be using glib's regular expressions, and after a lot of time wasted compiling just to test it, I decided to write a tool that could test it without compiling. Thus glibre was born.

The basic functionality is all there today, but I'm always looking for new ways to improve it. If you have an idea, feel free to add it to our issue tracker at https://bitbucket.org/rw_grim/glibre/issues/. Or if you're capable and willing feel free to send in some patches.