Re: [ANN] RegexKit - An Objective-C Framework for Regular Expressions Using the PCRE Library

FROM : Deborah Goldsmith
DATE : Tue Sep 11 04:09:03 2007

We definitely want this to happen, but it's a lot of work. This is 
the current roadblock:

http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/4521

Please note the number of weeks estimated for implementation.

Sorry for the long wait...

Deborah Goldsmith
Internationalization, Unicode Liaison
Apple Inc.
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On Sep 6, 2007, at 7:32 AM, Mark Munz wrote:

> Come on. 64b support is different than flashy animations and you 
> know it.
>
> Apple has a habit of making every developer repeat the same basic work
> that should be part of the system. Even with ICU included, you still
> have to jump through a number of hoops to use it with NSStrings. They
> know it (based on a conversation I had in 2006 at WWDC).
>
> Rather than fix the problem once, they basically force each developer
> to "fix" the problem. And this is a pattern that is decades old.
>
> On 9/6/07, Shawn Erickson <<email_removed>> wrote:

>>
>> On Sep 6, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Mark Munz wrote:
>>

>>>  and Apple
>>> apparently doesn't feel addressing this issue is more important than
>>> animating the views as they slide around the screen.

>>
>> Yeah also why did they waste time adding 64b support when the could
>> have been adding something a developer could have picked up
>> themselves if they really needed it.
>>
>> -Shawn
>>

>
>
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> Mark Munz
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