Note that at a time when I thought that VB-Regex would be a good candidate
for inclusion in trunk,
I put some updates in the inbox backporting some corrections that happened
in Visualworks or Pharo branches
http://source.squeak.org/inbox/VB-Regex-nice.20.mcz

The Pharo version has evolved since with more functionalities...

2015-05-13 3:02 GMT+02:00 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:

> On Tue, 12 May 2015, Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:
>
>  Am 12.05.2015 17:07, schrieb Levente Uzonyi:
>>
>>> Definitely. I've been playing with the idea - while I was working on
>>> my still unreleased DNS package - but I came to the conclusion that
>>> the VM side has to be cleaned first.
>>> The plugin should use the platform's support library, instead of some
>>> ~10 years old version.
>>>
>> Please, no! It's much easier to work with some old library that has
>> consistent behaviour everywhere than it is to find and work around the
>> differences between platform libraries e.g. on Windows, Linux, and some
>> regular UNIX variant. At work I need to do that with VA Smalltalk code page
>> conversion (UTF-8 to ISO8859L1 and back) - code that works on the client
>> doesn't work on the server, so there's a special case and workaround needed
>> to get everything right.
>> The only acceptable option if you really want to use an external library
>> would be to include a standard regex C library with well-defined
>> functionality in the VM.
>>
>
> Are you saying that the PCRE library behaves differently on different
> platforms?
>
> Levente
>
>
>> Cheers,
>> Hans-Martin
>>
>>
>>
>
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