Someone posted to Hacker News too. Here's the link to the comments there
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9070593
CheersBruno
From: Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com>
To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>; Bruno P. Kinoshita
<brunodepau...@yahoo.com.br>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: Anyone interested in regular expressions, again?
Thanks! I look forward to retiring mine!
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Bruno P. Kinoshita
<brunodepau...@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> That's great news! Thanks James!
> Bruno
>
> From: James Ring <s...@jdns.org>
> To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 11:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Anyone interested in regular expressions, again?
>
> Hey Benson,
>
> Just wanted to let you and the rest of the commons dev list that re2j
> is now in the open: please see https://github.com/google/re2j. Please
> take a look!
>
> Regards,
> James
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:36 PM, James Ring <s...@jdns.org> wrote:
>>> I'm working to bring re2j into the open, it will take some time
>>> because Google's internal procedures for this kind of thing are pretty
>>> lengthy. I'm hopeful it could be done in the next month or so.
>>
>> That is lovely news. Thanks!
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Thomas Neidhart
>>>> <thomas.neidh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> It seems very sensible to me. A team at Google producing re2j is
>>>> likely to have produced a far superior comestible to what I did. If
>>>> there's any possibility that it will emerge in, oh, a month or two, I
>>>> don't think it makes sense to go to the trouble to pull the HSRE code
>>>> into Apache.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> 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
>>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
