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

FROM : Ilan Volow
DATE : Tue Sep 11 16:19:28 2007

If I ignore the "Beware of Leopard" of signs for just a moment, can 
we reasonably expect NSRegularExpression (or something equivalent) in 
10.5?

-- Ilan



On Sep 10, 2007, at 10:09 PM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:

> 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.
> <email_removed>
>
> 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
>>>

>>
>>
>> --
>> Mark Munz
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