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
