Re: regexkit [Using NSPredicate to parse strings]

2008-03-05 Thread John Engelhart
On Mar 5, 2008, at 1:03 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: On 4 Mar '08, at 8:55 PM, John Engelhart wrote: The ICU Regex C API (the one I need to use for RegexKit, not the C+ + one, which I haven't really looked at) is very multi-threading unfriendly. Basically, the 'compiled' regex, the string being

Re: regexkit [Using NSPredicate to parse strings]

2008-03-04 Thread Jens Alfke
On 4 Mar '08, at 8:55 PM, John Engelhart wrote: It's sort of ambiguous if the /usr/lib/libicucore library is 'supported' or not. I believe the general consensus is that it's not really there for public use, hence the missing headers, but it's also not verboten. Yeah, this is annoying. I

Re: regexkit [Using NSPredicate to parse strings]

2008-03-04 Thread John Engelhart
On Mar 4, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: On 4 Mar '08, at 3:25 AM, Jonathan Dann wrote: That is a seriously good framework, and the documentation is great too. My only issue with regexkit is that it uses PCRE instead of ICU. [disclosure: I am the author of RegexKit] Hard to make e

Re: regexkit [Using NSPredicate to parse strings]

2008-03-04 Thread glenn andreas
On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: On 4 Mar '08, at 3:25 AM, Jonathan Dann wrote: That is a seriously good framework, and the documentation is great too. My only issue with regexkit is that it uses PCRE instead of ICU. PCRE has to be compiled into the library, making it large

Re: regexkit [Using NSPredicate to parse strings]

2008-03-04 Thread Jens Alfke
On 4 Mar '08, at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Dann wrote: I'm most-likely going to have to support many text-encodings. Say if I'm writing a document in Jaspanese (Mac OS), will I have to convert that to UTF-8 before the methods of something like RegexKit would work? Any caveats you know of that I

Re: regexkit [Using NSPredicate to parse strings]

2008-03-04 Thread Jonathan Dann
On 4 Mar 2008, at 17:50, Jens Alfke wrote: On 4 Mar '08, at 3:25 AM, Jonathan Dann wrote: That is a seriously good framework, and the documentation is great too. My only issue with regexkit is that it uses PCRE instead of ICU. PCRE has to be compiled into the library, making it larger (w

Re: regexkit [Using NSPredicate to parse strings]

2008-03-04 Thread Jens Alfke
On 4 Mar '08, at 3:25 AM, Jonathan Dann wrote: That is a seriously good framework, and the documentation is great too. My only issue with regexkit is that it uses PCRE instead of ICU. PCRE has to be compiled into the library, making it larger (whereas ICU is already built into the OS.)