Re: [Development] Regular expression libraries for QRegExp (what about tre)

2011-12-03 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Saturday, 3 de December de 2011 23.39.57, Francesco Riosa wrote: reading these two blogs: http://blog.rburchell.com/2011/12/why-i-avoid-qregexp-in-qt-4-and-so.html http://blogs.kde.org/node/4510 (Regexp library benchmarks...) I've learned of the TRE library

Re: [Development] Regular expression libraries for QRegExp

2011-11-23 Thread Robin Burchell
2011/11/23 Thiago Macieira thi...@kde.org: We don't even have to mark this one deprecated. If the new engine's API is compatible, it could be used for both. well doesn't that depend on how complete you want SC to be? QRegExp uses different syntax than pretty much every other RE engine,

Re: [Development] Regular expression libraries for QRegExp

2011-11-23 Thread lars.knoll
On 11/23/11 3:30 PM, ext Thiago Macieira thi...@kde.org wrote: On Monday, 21 de November de 2011 21:25:07 lars.kn...@nokia.com wrote: One interesting piece will be how we continue with this. We will most likely need one regexp engine in QtCore (as regexp's are being used internally in Qt in a

Re: [Development] Regular expression libraries for QRegExp

2011-11-22 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 22 de November de 2011 09.58.02, lars.kn...@nokia.com wrote: A IMO better solution would be to have a repository called e.g. qtsupport (KDE had something similar for quite a while) that contains copies to these 3rd party libraries for convenience. I'd prefer that too. And to keep

Re: [Development] Regular expression libraries for QRegExp

2011-11-21 Thread Stephen Kelly
On Friday, November 11, 2011 13:01:55 Zoltán Herczeg wrote: Hi Qt Devs, I am Zoltan Herczeg, a PCRE and a QtWebKit developer. Stephen Kelly told me that Qt would like to replace the QRegExp engine with another regex engine (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.qt5-feedback/1524/), and he

Re: [Development] Regular expression libraries for QRegExp

2011-11-21 Thread lars.knoll
On 11/21/11 6:29 PM, ext Thiago Macieira thi...@kde.org wrote: On Monday, 21 de November de 2011 15.45.49, Giuseppe D'Angelo wrote: But first: do we all (esp. Thiago, Lars) agree to use the UTF-8 version for now (and pay for the pattern/subject string/offsets conversions) and then write and

Re: [Development] Regular expression libraries for QRegExp

2011-11-11 Thread Zoltán Herczeg
Hi Qt Devs, I am Zoltan Herczeg, a PCRE and a QtWebKit developer. Stephen Kelly told me that Qt would like to replace the QRegExp engine with another regex engine (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.qt5-feedback/1524/), and he _really_ encouraged me to tell you that we consider adding

Re: [Development] Regular expression libraries for QRegExp

2011-11-11 Thread lars.knoll
Hi Zoltan, Great to hear from you. UTF16 support would be a basic requirement for us using it in Qt. We don't really need wchar_t support though. Our main issue seem to be timing then. We currently have the opportunity of changing API to some extend before we freeze down things for Qt 5 again.

Re: [Development] Regular expression libraries for QRegExp

2011-11-11 Thread Robin Burchell
hi, On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:10 PM, lars.kn...@nokia.com wrote: Our main issue seem to be timing then. We currently have the opportunity of changing API to some extend before we freeze down things for Qt 5 again. Thus we'd need something relatively soon to be able to use it for 5.0. hmm,