On 02/03/2015 01:46 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: > The irony here is that the Java HSRE port happened because it seemed > easier than an RE2 port. Note the same statements about API's pretty > much apply.
I am sorry, my response was not very sensible wrt your original proposal. If we have another implementation that works fine and has a sufficiently large enough community then I do not see a problem to include it in the commons project, I would certainly be interested. Thomas > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Thomas Neidhart > <thomas.neidh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 02/02/2015 11:20 PM, James Ring wrote: >>> I spoke to one of the authors of re2j, a Google-internal port of the C++ >>> re2 library. The intention was to open source it but they just haven't got >>> around to it. >>> >>> I may try and get Google to put re2j up on GitHub so you all can take a >>> look. AFAIK it is heavily used in Google and it has an API that is largely >>> compatible with java.util.regex. I know from personal experience that one >>> can often benefit from re2j merely by replacing java.util.regex imports >>> with the corresponding re2j imports. >> >> that would be super-cool. >> >> Thomas >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
