From: Robert Klemme Date: 2011-01-07T23:59:11+09:00 Subject: Re: Is there any chance of getting the oniguruma patch into ruby 1.8.6 for windows On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Zeno Davatz wrote: > Is there any chance getting the Oniguruma Patch 2.5.9 into Ruby-1.8.6 > for Windows? I believe there are a lot of Applications out there that > still use Ruby 1.8.6 and they want to use Regular Expressions as well > without having to rewrite their complete applications for Ruby 1.9.2 > > See: > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/brows... > > The latest Linux Oniguruma Patch works for Ruby 1.8.6 and the latest > Windows Patch works for Ruby 1.8.4. > > See these files: > http://dev.ywesee.com/uploads/%24PageName//oniguru... > > Also it seems that the Oniguruma Patch supports more regular expressions > then Ruby 1.9.2. does. See this discussion for that: > > http://fossplanet.com/f14/%5Bruby-core-28235%5D-%5... The links are broken. Are you referring to http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/28235 ? But that does not talk about 1.9.2 regexp vs. patched Ruby. Actually I would believe that if at all 1.9.2 has a richer set. > I am also willing to pay to get this job done. Once it is done, anybody > can use it. That's really generous! Question is, whether it's worth the effort. 1.8.7 seems a better target if any. OTOH since 1.9 is the way to go nowadays anyway porting to 1.9 might not be a too bad idea. You could at least try it once and see how far you get. It is not unrealistic that porting effort is close to zero. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/