In message <p05111735b8eb24bdf818@[192.168.9.116]>, "Mark F. Murphy" writes: >By the way... at one point we wanted to put in new perl >compatibility. Has anyone started this yet or have we laid out a >feature set to implement?
I put some placeholder skeleton documentation in place, but never got farther than that, time constraints being what they are. If we can just figure out a way to incrementally hash this out on the mailing list, 5 minutes here and 5 minutes there, we could at least arrive at a plan in a few weeks. There are a number of things I'd like to add outside of the Perl 5.6 (soon 5.8) compatibility. One of these is include factory class(es) for plugging in any regular expression package using the org.apache.oro.text.regex interfaces. This way we can wrap the JDK 1.4 java.util.regex package and let developers choose an engine on the fly without changing any code. Another thing is to use conditional compilation (I think there's an Ant cpp task floating around) to support different JVM versions. My main motivation is to have a J2ME version of the package (especially since J2ME doesn't include java.util.regex). But I understand there are projects which for various reasons will still be using JDK 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3, so we want to keep those users. JDK 1.4+ folks can use java.util.regex if they want, but we'll be the truly cross-platform/cross-jvm choice. daniel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
