Re: RegExp project still maintained?

[Daniel Rall <dl...@finemaltcoding.com>]

Gunther Schadow <gu...@aurora.regenstrief.org> writes:

> Mathieu Gervais wrote:
>
>  > I'm not sure if this is the place to ask for this, but I've noticed the
>  > regexp project seems to not be maintained anymore. [...] Is it
>  > recomended to switch to ORO? [...] I think if
>  > this project is going without any active maintainer it should be noted
>  > on the webpage and users should be guided to ORO instead.
>
> I can't answer your question, but I might add that I have recently
> evaluated (i.e., tried) the three alternatives of Java regex libraries,
> Jakarta Regexp, GNU regex, and ORO and I was biased towards GNU regex.
> But after the test I was convinced ORO was the best choice. It's most
> general of the three (if a little more complicated to use) AND it
> performed well (more efficiently than GNU regex.) So, I think ORO is
> the best bet today.

I've had consistently good experiences using ORO.

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