Ito Kazumitsu wrote: > I am playing with gnu.regexp these days and finding more and more > to do before it becomes comparable with Sun's JDK. > > Although I will continue to make efforts on gnu.regexp, > I am beginning to try another thing. > > I have found oniguruma, the regex library which is used as a > regex engine of Ruby, is pretty good. It already supports > most part of java.util.regex.Pattern syntax. > > http://www.geocities.jp/kosako3/oniguruma/ > > I will write a JNI interface to oniguruma, and make it > switchable with gnu.regexp. Users can select one of the > supported regexp engines at their choice.
While I'm certainly not against this option, I would like to point out that for some VMs using a native library isn't really a great solution, so I really hope this doesn't mean that you discontinue your excellent (and *much* appreciated) work on gnu.regexp. Thanks, Jeroen
