Oh, but in Engine 1.7 it is still used for EscapeReference and subclasses. Though if you don't use those, you don't need ORO.
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Nathan Bubna <nbu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, ORO is gone in 2.0, at least it ought to be. > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Christopher Schultz > <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: >> All, >> >> I'm (finally) upgrading from 1.4 to 1.7 and I'm looking at the upgrade >> guide (short and sweet: I like it). It basically just says "make sure >> your deps are up-to-date". >> >> I have a file in my lib directory which actually shows the relationships >> between different components so that I make sure I don't upgrade one dep >> for one package and then disable another one accidentally. >> >> Under the "velocity-1.4.jar" entry, it says it depends on >> jakarta-oro.2.0.8.jar. I can't find anything in the upgrade guide about >> ORO. I searched the code, and there is only one Java class that mention ORO: >> >> velocity-engine-core/src/main/java/org/apache/velocity/app/event/implement/EscapeReference.java >> >> It mentioned it in the class Javadocs: >> >> ... >> * Regular expressions should follow the "Perl5" format used by the ORO >> regular expression >> * library. More info is at >> * <a >> href="http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/api/org/apache/oro/text/perl/package-summary.html";>http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/api/org/apache/oro/text/perl/package-summary.html</a>. >> ... >> >> A quick read of the code suggests that this code has been upgraded to >> use java.util.regex and that ORO is no longer used. Is that the case? If >> so, those Javadocs ought to be updated. It might also be worth >> mentioning on the upgrade page that Velocity no longer requires Jakarta ORO. >> >> I also checked tools trunk and it looks like there is no dependency on >> Jakarta ORO, though no mention of it occurs. My notes say >> "velocity-tools-1.4.jar : jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar (probably for >> velocity-1.4)" so I suspect I just had an additional note in there. >> >> Sounds like I can finally purge ORO from my libraries, eh? >> >> Thanks, >> -chris >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@velocity.apache.org
