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
