On 14 February 2014 18:25, Matthew Woehlke <[email protected]> wrote: > > That said... is there any technical reason why QRegExp couldn't sprout a > PCRE expression type, that would use QRegularExpression internally? That > would neatly solve the expression types problem (though > QRegularExpression would still have a better API...). And also everyone > already supporting QRegExp would suddenly get PCRE support "for free".
It could certainly be done from a technical POV, but I'd rather prefer not giving people the idea that QRegExp is actively developed/maintained, so that when we finally deprecate it the news doesn't come as a surprise... I guess that for Kate's purposes a small wrapper class around QRegExp + QRegularExpression would suffice for supporting both syntaxes. For the future, we could instead think of adding wildcard and fixed-string pattern types to QRegularExpression. Thanks, -- Giuseppe D'Angelo _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
