Re: [Regexp] Progress towards Classpath project inclusion?

[Dalibor Topic]

Wes Biggs wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >  
> 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.

There hasn't been that much developement, really, beside small patches 
to clean up imports and remove some unused code. Which seems to show 
that the code works well, as its used in URI parsing :)

cheers,
dalibor topic