+1

Having a regexp engine in a known good state that jives with your release
build is going to be key to grabbing mindshare from the likes of Ruby IMHO.
When I was first looking at Squeak, one of my first questions was "how do I
do regular expressions?" When the answer turned out to be "Go find a version
of this package that works with this release and figure out how to install
it" I nearly wrote Squeak off and went on to download a Haskell compiler
instead.

While I'd expect a regexp engine to be unloadable via
#unloadAllKnownPackages, (hence not present in a "core" image,) I would even
go so far as to say that we should probably be shipping it (and testing it)
with the "standard" image.

</2cents>

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> On 04.05.2010, at 03:58, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
> > Yes, that's an idea. However if I have the code snippet easily
> > available in the 'Extending the System' workspace, then that's fine
> > for me the time being.
> >
> > In fact I consider the Regex package to be a bit weak in terms of
> > functionality but I think we do not have anything more comprehensive.
> >
> > It is easy for me to install a new image, run the updates and then
> > execute a few more statements to configure the image for a particular
> > purpose.
> >
> > --Hannes
> >
> > On 5/3/10, Ian Trudel <ian.trudel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Why isn't Regex included in the core image? It's a question I have in
> >> my mind for a while. Dealing with text in Smalltalk often results in a
> >> lot of code to write. Regular expressions are useful. Many programming
> >> languages nowadays have a Regexp engine included.
> >>
> >> Ian.
> >> --
> >> http://mecenia.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Seems to be a perfect example of a package that could be bundled with a
> release but not be loaded by default?
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>
>
>


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Casey Ransberger
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