From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner" <wonado@...>
Date: 2005-08-06T21:16:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Which Regex-Engine will be used in Ruby 1.8.3 Release?

>>>>> snip  >>>>>
"Yukihiro Matsumoto" <matz@ruby-lang.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1123316581.425077.14779.nullmailer@x31.priv.netlab.jp...
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> In message "Re: Which Regex-Engine will be used in Ruby 1.8.3 Release?"
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> Two reasons:
>
>   * no one have verified regular expression compatibility in detail before.
>   * no one have proven the stability of the new engine.
>
> It would not be merged unless someone pay the cost to verify the new
> engine.
>>>>> snap >>>>>

I am interested in a early integration of Oniguruma into Ruby too. I will be in a Health cure clinic for
cancer follow-up treatment starting end of next week for up to 6 weeks, accompanied by my good old Notebook,
having a lot of time, but without regular access to the internet.

The installation for making tests is extracted from 'ruby-1.9.0-20050722-i386-mswin32.zip', all additionally
required dlls are installed too, and it works on Windows2000.

I can make the following tests:

- Test of all regular expression patterns listed in the Pickaxe book and several combinations of them

- Test of all regular expression options listed in the Pickaxe Book and several combinations of them

- Test of everything related to the classes Regex and MatchData, and relevant parts of class String

- Test of other regular expression usages (e.g. split)

- Test related to features of Oniguruma, which are not part of the old pattern matching engine

For tests related to internationalization I can take care of Unicode UTF-8 (hopefully).

If there is any interest I can zip together all sources, comments and console outputs and find a way to
transfer the data somehow via internet to ???? (if I don't find an internet cafe, it is possible to send the
data on diskette via snail-mail to someone who can do the job).

This can be done up to end of september / beginning of october 2005 (year should be named in IT ;-)) ).

To whom should the data be sent? (Please answer before 10. of october in comp.lang.ruby or directly to:
'wonado AT donnerweb DOT de')

Wolfgang