Re: AbstractRegexpMatcher.java

[Marc Portier <mp...@outerthought.org>]

Troy,

I might be missing something but AFAICS the jakarta-regexp 
dependency is mainly just legacy we're reluctant to touch, while 
most new regex-needing additions are opting for the oro 
dependency (probably for the reasons you mention)

I would be +1 to the allignment effort that removes the 
'historical' jakarta-regexp dependency from our code...
(support on jdk 1.3 makes it impossible to use the 1.4 regexp 
support)

So please proceed and keep us posted?

Any other opinions on this?

-marc=


Gould, Troy (ELS) wrote:
> My first post to the dev mailing list...
> 
> Has anyone considered using jakarta ORO instead of jakarta regexp for doing
> RegExp Matching?  Particularly in the AbstractRegexpMatcher.  Or have
> another RegexpMatcher that uses ORO instead of regexp?
> 
> I've found out that the regexp project is a "light-weight" tool, while the
> oro project gives me much more advances RegExp matching abilities.  I've
> actually already built another AbstractRegexpMatcher to use oro and am using
> in a project I'm working on.  My reason for doing this came today when I
> needed to do zero-width negative lookaheads which regexp doesn't seem to
> support.
> 
> I would be happy to contribute it to the project.
> 
> Regards,
> Troy Gould
> 

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