From: Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@...>
Date: 2011-01-08T00:34:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there any chance of getting the oniguruma patch into ruby 1.8.6 for windows

Dear Robert

Robert Klemme wrote in post #973111:
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Zeno Davatz <zdavatz@gmail.com> wrote:

> The links are broken.  Are you referring to
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/28235 ?

Sorry, I corrected the links in the interface, here they are again:

http://url.ba/00z0

I was referring to the discussion of Michael Fellinger with some 
Developers. See above link.

> 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.

This is the discussion. Ruby-Devs explicitly say they did not want to 
copy all of Onigurumas functions. That created problems for Michael as 
well:

http://url.ba/00z0

You really have to read all the four pages, where there is also a PDF of 
Matz that says consistency in Ruby is not actually a goal ;).

>> 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.

I do believe it is worth the effort.

http://url.ba/7pw3

Many helpful tips of Luis Lavena.

I am already trying myself but this will take forever. I need help here 
and I am willing to pay for it.

Porting our application to Ruby 1.9 is a much bigger effort then getting 
the Oniguruma Patch into Ruby 1.8.6 for windows. Linux is fine.

What I really want is a Ruby-Installer (.exe) for Ruby 1.8.6 with the 
Oniguruma-Patch applied. That installer for windows should install Ruby 
1.8.6 _with_the_oniguruma_patch applied, Rubygems and all the other 
stuff as normal.

It also seems that the maintainer for Oniguruma has a win32 patch up to 
version 1.8.4 (for windows) and the linux version goes up to Version 
1.8.6 (that is what we are using at http://ch.oddb.org.

See these files:

http://url.ba/76xv

you will find the Linux and Win32 patches all there, including the 
Makefile.

Best
Zeno

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