Re: [Regexp] Progress towards Classpath project inclusion?

Richard Bullington-McGuire wrote:

>Last December, Wes Biggs announced that the gnu.regexp software was 
>hopefully going to become part of GNU Classpath. Where does this stand?
>
>This software has been very useful to me over the years, it would be good 
>to see it live on in that way.
>
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Hi Richard -- there hasn't been much (any?) buzz about it, but 
gnu.regexp is now part of the Classpath distribution.   I haven't been 
heavily involved in the process since making sure all the paperwork was 
in order to assign copyright to the FSF, but according to tags on the 
files in 
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/classpath/classpath/gnu/regexp/, 
it's been part of the Classpath distro since release 0.08 (the current 
release is 0.10).

Additionally, gnu.regexp is the backing implementation behind 
Classpath's implementation of the java.util.regex APIs since 0.09 (based 
on a bridge layer I wrote a while back).  In this respect there is not 
yet 100% compatibility with some of the advanced features of JDK 1.4 
expressions, but it is a suitable drop-in replacement for most standard 
uses of REs.

Dalibor Topic is now maintaining the code for Classpath.

Regards,

Wes