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

FROM : Ilan Volow
DATE : Wed Sep 05 16:08:22 2007

If by the time that 10.5 is released, the mac development community 
still doesn't have basic regex support in Foundation, you have my 
vote to the change the name of your project to NSRegularExpression.

-- Ilan

On Sep 2, 2007, at 7:12 PM, Alastair Houghton wrote:

> On 1 Sep 2007, at 20:49, John Engelhart wrote:
>

>> Announcing RegexKit - A framework for regular
>> expressions using the PCRE library.

>
> Hi John,
>
> Any chance of changing the name to PCREKit or something more 
> specific?  It's just that there are a number of regexp libraries, 
> all with subtly different implementations (e.g. POSIX, PCRE, 
> Oniguruma, ICU...).  It can be a bit puzzling at times when 
> confronted with apps using the various different libraries (and/or 
> with various different options enabled), so I think it'd be good to 
> make it *really* obvious to people that your library is using PCRE.
>
> Incidentally, does PCRE have good (i.e. native) support for 
> UTF-16?  Oniguruma and ICU both do (and ICU includes a powerful 
> implementation of the regex character class feature that lets you 
> query Unicode attributes), which makes them a good choice for 
> integration with Cocoa, but if you have to e.g. transcode to UTF-8 
> in order to use regex matching, it's going to be somewhat more 
> expensive.
>
> BTW, nice documentation.  I was going to ask what tools you used to 
> do it, but it looks like you included them in the source 
> distribution.  You should consider packaging up the doc. building 
> tools separately, as it looks like they're an improvement on 
> headerdoc.
>
> On 1 Sep 2007, at 22:20, John C. Randolph wrote:
>


Ilan Volow
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