Re: [platform-ant-dev] fragment for regexp matching console

[Matt_Conway@xxxxxx]

Using regexps for the Search/Replace dialog is also a good (better?) 
argument.  There are a lot more instances of regexps being useful for a 
search/replace, than there are console lines not being matched by the 
simple StringMatcher.
Basically, I just used regexps in my console line matcher so that I could 
have a more flexible mechanism for punting the decision to the user ;-)

Why not have an abstraction layer that delegates to jakarta if 1.4 is not 
present?  This would make it easy to remove jakarta in the future when its 
is obsoleted.


Matt





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> we do not yet have approval to include apache's support in the SDK yet
(from
> the PMC).
Darin is correct. Eclipse 2.1 must run on 1.3. The next version of Eclipse
will likely require JDK 1.4.

JDK 1.4 comes with a good regexp API that would make the apache regexp
package obsolete. Including something in the Eclipse platform now that 
will
be obsoleted soon is unhappy. Therefore this needs good arguments.
Using regular expressions  for output parsing is a good argument.

Here is a follow-up question, given the hand crafted matcher only
1) which output formats from Ant tasks (e.g. javac, jikes, rmic,
javadoc...)
will be supported and 2) which output formats will likely not be supported
given
the lack of regexp support in the platform?

--erich



  
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Yes - but Eclipse must run on a 1.3 JRE, so we cannot yet rely on 1.4
features :-) Thus, we are without regular expression matching.

Darin


 
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On 12/11/2002 09:49:05 PM platform-ant-dev-admin wrote:
>
> Just a note - we'd like to have regular expression matching support.
However,
> we do not yet have approval to include apache's support in the SDK yet
(from
> the PMC). The "StringMatcher" does not support regular expression
matching -
> just pattern matching :-( Thus, our less than optimal implementation.

And thus the reson why I used JDK's regexp engine ;-)
Actually, the zip file I posted was slightly screwy - here is one that
actually works.

Matt






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